extinguishing agent

The new type of extinguishing agent made it possible to fight small metal fires.

Despite their effectiveness, chemical fire extinguishing agents are not without disadvantages.

Each class designates the fuel involved in the fire, and thus the most appropriate extinguishing agent.

This is a volatile extinguishing agent that should be used only with a breathing apparatus.

Chemical extinguishing agents rained on the aircraft at about three minutes after the impact.

Most fire extinguishing agents pose a corrosion hazard to aircraft.

These regulations also govern the handling of halon fire extinguishing agents.

It is designed with foresight to give access of the extinguishing agent to the sea of the fire.

Some extinguishers are labeled as containing dry chemical extinguishing agents.

Many common fire extinguishing agents, including water, either are ineffective or make a potassium fire worse.

Before 1997, the entire body of the fire extinguisher was color coded according to the type of extinguishing agent.

Broadly speaking, there are two methods for applying an extinguishing agent: total flooding and local application.

Hand-held fire extinguishers using advanced technology extinguishing agents such as Halon.

Control includes denial of oxygen, addition of extinguishing agents, and removing heat sources.

The extinguishing agent rapidly converts the burning substance to a non-combustible soap.

For example, if the fire service is unable to determine which extinguishing agent they need for the good being transported, this can have fatal consequences.

The firemen's water had contained an extinguishing agent which at specific temperatures has an exalting effect on colour emulsion.

Thanks to heavy snowdrifts on the access road all the extinguishing agents had to be transported up the mountain on the cable car.

Halotron I is the replacement extinguishing agent.

Methyl bromide was discovered as an extinguishing agent in the 1920s and was used extensively in Europe.

There are no perfect replacements for either the fire extinguishing agents (halons) or fumigants (methyl bromide).

Efforts are underway to refine this method, for example with additives to the quenching water or with alternative extinguishing agents.

The aerosol employs a fire extinguishing agent consisting of very fine solid particles and gaseous matter to extinguish fires.

A further safeguard against below-deck fires was a bank of 18 carbon dioxide extinguishing agent cylinders forward of the water tower.

For example, non-conductive extinguishing agents are rated for electrical fires, so to avoid electrocuting the firefighter.