self-heating leads to self-ignition (or auto-ignition), and eventually to flaming or smouldering combustion. For this reason, we denote spontaneous combustion to include all three stages of this ...

Messes. Editors—I enclose a paragraph ut from the Evening Bulletin of Saturday last, especting the spontaneous ignition of pow-lered charcoal when damp. This hasgreatly iurprised me, and I ...