Abel test

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The test was mandated by the British Petroleum Act 1879, which fixed the minimum flash point for general and commercial use at Script error: No such module "convert"..[2]

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  2. Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000, edited by Ernst Homburg and Elisabeth Vaupel (Berghahn Books, 2019), p. 30.

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