Study Of Fire And Arson In America

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The modern study of fire and arson in America was born in the 1970s. A 1973 Nixon Administration report called America Burning sounded the alarm and the report galvanized Congress to support the young field of fire research. Congress created the Center for Fire Research at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), which has become the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Until then, there really was no fire safety/arson science.
In the early 1980s, a device was invented (The cone calorimeter) resembling a stove vent hood with a series of ducts attached to the top of a small sealed chamber. When an object, such as a piece of plastic or wood, was burned in the chamber, the smoke and exhaust was measured the chemical composition

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