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en more porous than the top, and air can penetrate into thecenter of the pile and promote oxidation, while the heated gases risehigher into the interior of the pile, from which they cannot escape.The final result is likely to be a raising of the temperature up to apoint where spontaneous combustion… … Fig. 2. in Fig. i in which it will be noticed that the large lumps are mostlyat the bottom of the pile, resulting in a porous condition there, favor-able to spontaneous combustion. If coal is placed instorage in layers, thelumps separate fromthe fines to a much lessextent than when thecoal is piled…
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