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Principles underlying current tests for the spontaneous heating propensity of carbonaceous materials are examined and extended to enable rate expressions for such materials to be deduced. The extensions are ex perimentally implemented for a Scottish bituminous coal.

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A Single-Point Estimation of the Combustion Rate Expression for a Bituminous Coal

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