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Chapter 12, Problem 38E
Under ordinary circumstances coal burns slowly, but the fine coal dust in mines sometimes burns so rapidly as to cause an explosion. Explain the difference in rates. Would you expect the danger from spontaneous combustion to be greater in a coal pile containing principally large chunks or in one containing finely pulverized coal? Why?
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