Sentence examples for dioxide fire from inspiring English sources
NEVER use a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher for fires involving lithium aluminum hydride (LAH).
This provision does not apply to cylinders used for carbon dioxide, fire extinguisher or other industrial gas service. 1 The requalifier performing eddy current must be familiar with the eddy current equipment and must standardize (calibrate) the system in accordance with the requirements provided in Appendix C to this part.
Dr Yan can with his home-made carbon dioxide fire extinguisher.
Fire fighters initially used carbon dioxide fire extinguishers because water can act as a moderator and cause plutonium to go critical.
The explosions ruptured the ship's avgas lines, damaged both her port and starboard fire mains and the emergency generator powering her fire pumps, as well as knocking out the carbon dioxide fire suppression system.
Could it have been a defect in some piece of the plane's accessories — radio batteries, carbon-dioxide fire extinguishers, and so on?
This paper considers the formation of nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide in fire effluents, their potential toxic effects and the consequential need to reconsider the methods of calculating toxic potency values.
Although pyrogenic emissions may be regionally significant sources of atmospheric carbon dioxide [12], fire-related mortality of trees is the single largest carbon transformation that occurs during severe forest fires, carbon which becomes available to future release through decomposition or future fire [12, 14, 47].
Air-conditioning makes use of the cooling effect that occurs when a gas is allowed to suddenly expand, familiar to some from the barroom trick of cooling drinks with a blast of carbon dioxide from a fire extinguisher.
You can see this in action when pressurised carbon dioxide inside a fire extinguisher turns instantly into a frost when it is released through the nozzle and on to a fire.
They employ carbon dioxide canisters that fire gelatin balls filled with paint.
