Re: Combustibility of Uranium

[David Abbott <abbott@washops.llnl.gov>]

There is a DOE Handbook  Primer on Spontaneous Heating and Pyrophoricity
DOE-HDBK-1081-94
December 1994

Its got a couple of pages devoted to uranium, but may or may not have the
level of detail you need.


At 01:03 AM 12/6/96 -0600, you wrote:
>Radsafers,
>
>I am yet puzzled by another question. 
>
>Have any studies been done regarding the pyrofirecity (spontaneous
>combustibility) of Uranium???
>
>Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
>
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