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in a darkened lab, flood lights illuminate a fire burning on a platform beneath a very large, circular vent hood

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The FIREX team used the U.S. Forest Service's Missoula Fire Sciences Lab's burn chamber to study what fires emit. Sensors placed in the chimney would record what chemicals are present in the smoke. Credit: Henry Worobec, University of Montana Missoula.