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Appliance - ✔✔✔Eqipment, usually built in standardized sizes or types, installed or
connected as a unit
Approved - ✔✔✔Acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction.
American society for testing materials - ✔✔✔ASTM
Authority having Jurisdiction - ✔✔✔The organization, office or individual responsible
for approving equipment, installations or procedures
Baffle - ✔✔✔Object placed in an appliance to change the direction, extend the path, or
slow the flow of air, air-fuel mixtures, or flue gasses
BOCA - ✔✔✔Building Officials Code Administrators International, an organization that
develops model Building codes
Borescope - ✔✔✔A device used for internal inspection of hard to see areas.
British Thermal Unit. BTU - ✔✔✔The amount of heat required to raise 1lb or water 1
degree Fahrenheit
CFM Cubic Feet Per Minute, - ✔✔✔as used to measure air flow
Clearance - ✔✔✔Distance between a heat producing appliance, chimney, chimney
connector, vent, vent connector or plenum, and other surfaces.
Combustion - ✔✔✔The rapid oxidation of fuel usually accompanied by the production
of heat and light.
Combustion Chamber - ✔✔✔A heavily constructed area designed to withstand direct
contact with combustion and to optimize conditions necessary to burn fuel efficiently.
Confined Space - ✔✔✔A space whose volume is less than 50 cu ft per 1,000 btu/hr of
the aggregate input rating of all appliances installed in that space. Also defined as 512
cubic feet.
Connector - ✔✔✔The pipe that connects the clothes dryer to the exhaust duct, also
known as the transition duct.