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Building Laws 141 26

An electric arc is an extremely hot luminous bridge formed when an electric current passes through a space between two conductors, causing the conducting vapor to glow due to incandescence. Pyrophoric substances ignite spontaneously in air, fulminates explode from percussion, and flashpoint is the minimum temperature at which a material gives off flammable vapors.

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Building Laws 141 26

An electric arc is an extremely hot luminous bridge formed when an electric current passes through a space between two conductors, causing the conducting vapor to glow due to incandescence. Pyrophoric substances ignite spontaneously in air, fulminates explode from percussion, and flashpoint is the minimum temperature at which a material gives off flammable vapors.

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An extremely hot luminous bidge formed by passage of an electric current across a space between two conductors or terminals due

to the incandescence of the conducting vapor


Electric Arc
Explanation Pyrophoric - Descriptive of any substance that ignites spontaneously when exposed to air. Flashpoint - The minimum temperature at which any matrial gives off vapor in sufficient concentration to form an ignitable mixture with air. Fulminate - A kind f stable explosive compound which explodes by percussion.

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