Show HAZARD IN SOAP DUST explosions the recent development and growing use of soap powders and flakes have led to a new industrial hazard tests made at the pittsburgh experiment station of the united states bureau of mines have shown that certain types of soap dusts when suspended in air are more violently than most dusts encountered in ill industry the well known cooling effect of sodium compounds on oil the flames of explosives and the semi in organic inorganic nature of the compound soap might lead one to tb expect soap dust suspensions to be relatively non soap dust suspensions in air are however easily ignited and produce violent explosions accompanied by much flame and large quantities of heat |