The aim of this work is to demonstrate the peculiar aspects of hybrid mixtures explosion as regard to vapours or dusts explosions. This work has been focused on pharmaceutical products from excipients (magnesium stearate), vitamins (niacin) to active principles (antibiotics) and their associated solvants (ethanol, diisopropyl ether, toluene. . .). Explosion spheres have been used to determined ...

The Pittsburgh Research Laboratory of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health conducted a study of the explosibility of various metals and other elemental dusts dispersed in air, with a focus on the experimental explosion temperatures. The data are useful for understanding the basics of dust cloud combustion, as well as for evaluating the explosion hazards in the minerals and ...

Burns due to explosions of various types of inflammable dust have been reported, including coal dust, flour and grain dust. A 33-year-old worker was burned over 33 per cent of his body surface area in a sawdust explosion. Recovery was uneventful. This is the first reported case due to this mechanism as far as we have been able to ascertain.