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A Report on the Use of Calcium Chloride as a Possible Forest Fire Retardant

• HF-ID: HF1929-08
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Stickel, Paul W.

• Date: 1929
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Report. 1 file folder.

• Keywords: fires
• Abstract:
  • In this report by Paul W. Stickel, dated November 15, 1929, R. T. Fisher is acknowledged for suggesting the possibilities of calcium chloride in forest fire work and for furnishing a supply of the chemical for experimental use.
  
  
  • A series of experiments was undertaken in Petersham, Mass., in the northern white pine-eastern hemlock type of litter.

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