If they overheat or are damaged, the result can be a fierce, high-temperature fire.

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Laboratory tests have shown that such events can prompt nearby cells to quickly heat up and result in a fierce, high-temperature fire engulfing the battery and anything nearby.

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We brought in arm loads of wood, and kept the fire going, as the temperature in the house ticked down.

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And using techniques obscured by the fire damage, Jefferys drastically downsized mechanisms for temperature compensation and friction reduction.

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On that occasion, oxygen was pumped into the vessel to supplement the crew's air supply but all it did was fuel the flames of a fire which had already started, raising the temperature on board to 1, 000 degrees Celsius.

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Both the temperature and wind have dropped, aiding fire crews, but conditions are expected to change at the weekend.

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To make a package out of ceramics you have to fire it, like a clay pot, at an extremely high temperature.

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The Silent generation ( much like its affinity for Apple iOS) and Boomers were more likely to boost the temperature on the iPad mini, rather than the Kindle Fire HD.

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Items are now housed in a temperature and humidity-controlled strong-room protected by an inert gas fire protection system, which would douse the room in gas to kill flames instead of using water.

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Then researchers fan out across the forest measuring the temperature and the humidity of the air (two of the factors that determine how a fire will behave), and recording the amount of woody fuel in the forest and the moisture in that fuel.

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