Gas stations have offered different types of gas for decades. There's a belief that high octane gas can clean your engine, but it doesn't really work like that.

If you mix 87- and 91-octane gas in your vehicle, your engine won't fall out into the street. But will it damage your vehicle ...

The Office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal is investigating a fire that occurred at a pole barn in Dorchester County on Thursday.

This is a question of considerable importance to those who use fine charcoal dust ; and we hope experiments may be made which will prove its liability to accidental combustion, or the reverse.

Coming from the diminutive but spontaneously combustible former Minister and governor, these accusatory assertions sound utterly comical.

CAMBRIDGE, Md. — A spontaneous combustion of hay is believed to be the cause of a barn fire that caused around $150,000 in damage in Dorchester County. On Thursday afternoon, just before 5 p.m., ...

To elucidate the mechanism of coal spontaneous combustion (CSC) and its dynamic evolution under hypoxic conditions, this study employed programmed temperature elevation combined with in situ ...

Feature Confer on Spontaneous Combustion By Science News Magazine Issue: Vol. 16 No. #449, November 16, 1929 Having trouble viewing this? Open in a new window Questions or comments on this article?