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|  MATERIALS SUBJECT TO
Spontaneous Heating and Pyrophoricity
DOE-HDBK-1081-94
SPONTANEOUS HEATING
Tendency of
Usual shipping
spontaneous
container or
Precautions against
Name
heating
storage method
spontaneous heating
Remarks
Fish scrap
High
Bulk, bags
Avoid moisture extremes.
Scrap loaded or stored before cooling
is extremely liable to heat.
Foam rubber in
Moderate
Where possible remove foam
Foam rubber may continue to heat
consumer products
rubber pads, etc., from garments
spontaneously after being subjected
to be dried in dryers or over
to forced drying as in home or
heaters. If garments containing
commercial dryers and after contact
foam rubber parts have been
with heating pads and other heat
artificially dried, they should be
sources. Natural drying does not
thoroughly cooled before being
cause spontaneous heating.
piled,
bundled, or put away. Keep
heating pads, hair dryers, other
heat sources from contact with
foam rubber pillows, etc.
Grain (various
Very slight
Bulk, bags
Avoid moisture extremes.
Ground grains may heat if wet and
kinds)
warm.
Hay
Moderate
Bulk, bales
Keep dry and cool.
Wet or improperly cured hay is
almost certain to heat in hot weather.
Baled hay seldom heats dangerously.
Hides
Very slight
Bales
Keep dry and cool.
Bacteria in untreated hides may
initiate heating.
Iron pyrites
Moderate
Bulk
Avoid large piles; keep dry and
Moisture accelerates oxidation of
cool.
finely divided pyrites.
Istle
Very slight
Bulk, bales
Keep cool and dry.
Heating possible in wet material;
unlikely under ordinary conditions.
Partially burned or charred fiber is
dangerous.
Jute
Very slight
Bulk
Keep cool and dry.
Avoid storing or loading in hot wet
piles. Partially burned or charred
material is dangerous.
Lamp black
Very slight
Wooden cases
Keep cool and dry.
Fires most likely to result from
sparks or included embers, etc.,
rather than spontaneous heating.
Lanolin
Negligible
Glass, cans, metal
Avoid contact of leakage from
Heating possible on contaminated
drums, barrels
containers with rags, cotton, or
fibrous matter.
other fibrous combustible
materials.
Lard oil
Slight
Wooden barrels
Avoid contact of leakage from
Dangerous on fibrous combustible
containers with rags, cotton, or
substances.
other fibrous combustible
materials.
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Pyrophoricity
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