### burning:

Arson
* can be a weapon for political purposes
  - involve one's own property or someone else's property
* carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
* is crime
  - criminal acts
  - fire
  - frequent in young people who are unable to understand painful events in their lives
  - physical attacks
* robs communities of valuable assets in lives and property
  - tax base and citizens suffer higher insurance premiums and taxes

### burning:

Ignition
* Many ignitions have both thermal and chain-branching contributions.
* can occur from sparks.
* depends on the duration of the current and the kind of fuel the lightning hits.
* is fire
  - itself intimately tied to instinct
  - mechanisms
  - part of electrical systems
  - the process of initiating self-sustained combustion
* normally takes place in the dead component of the fine fuels.
* occurs at the location and time at which the two reactant streams first mix.
* occurs when an electric spark meets the butane gas in the combustion chamber
  - enough energy is applied to a fuel

### burning | ignition:

Spontaneous combustion
* can occur if the flammable liquid vapors escape
  - within several weeks
* is ignition
  - part of south parks

### burning:

Incineration
* also can have environmental problems
  - emits many heavy metals and chemical compounds that can pose health hazards
  - ensures protection from infectious diseases
* burns high- boiling point solvents.
* can even create compounds that scientists have yet to identify
  - lead to the production and release of more toxic compounds
  - provide energy as a by-product
* causes pollution and there limit to the amount of land available for landfill.
* consists of burning waste to produce energy.
* depends on burning materials like wood fibre which are among the easiest to recycle.
* destroys or makes waste less hazardous through burning
  - the nitrogen and organic material content of the manure
* false promise.
* involves burning the waste.
* is an effective means of decontamination
  - extension of drying
  - oxidization process that can separate organic from inorganic carbon compounds
  - biologically the safest method of disposal
  - combustion with the primary purpose being the destruction of the toxic chemical
  - harmful to the environment, it pollutes
  - seen as a viable means to dispose of the increasing volume of solid waste
* is the first stage in Japan's waste disposal program
  - process of burning waste products
* leads to air pollution and unhappy neighbors.
* less efficient method of recovering the energy content of such wastes.
* means burning garbage.
* often produces toxic air emissions and toxic ash.
* rapid, exothermic oxidation process that destroys organic material in the off-gas.
* releases pollutants into the air
  - significant toxins into the environment
* requires a large amount of energy to completely cremate a carcass
  - very high temperatures for efficient combustion
* source of greenhouse gases and toxic chemicals like dioxins and lead.
* still produces emission into the air including air pollutants and greenhouse gasses.
* transforms solid waste into ash and air pollution.
* uses energy and produces air pollution, residual ash.