The term "fire extinguishing agent" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to refer to the materials or chemicals that are used to put out fires. For example, "The fire station had many different types of fire extinguishing agents on hand to combat any flames."
You must break the seal and pull the safety pin from the handle before you can use the fire extinguisher by squeezing the lever, which discharges the fire extinguishing agent.
Until 2008, PFOS was widely used as fire extinguishing agent [41].
YP Systems used food additive grade CO2 as the fire extinguishing agent to avoid dangers to people and electric systems.
The applicability of fire extinguishing agent for power lithium batteries was analysed in this work.
And, this system uses high pressured nitrogen as the fire extinguishing agent, which is economical and environment friendly.
Through the acupuncture experiment, the different efficiencies of fire extinguishing agents were compared.
PFAS are used in numerous industrial applications (e.g. electroplating, fluoropolymer production, photography), fire extinguishing agents and as processing aids in impregnation agents for a large number of consumer products (e.g. textile, carpet and leather protectors and food contact papers) since the 1950s [4 6].
Many common fire extinguishing agents, including water, either are ineffective or make a potassium fire worse.
Unexpectedly, dichlorodifluoromethane (CFC-12, Freon-12, CCl2F2), a refrigerant, solvent, propellant, and fire extinguishant, was mixed with Halon gases in a fire-extinguishing agent in Taiwan.
The stabilization and suppression behavior of a nonpremixed methane flame formed behind a backward-facing step in a combustion tunnel has been studied by impulsively injecting a gaseous fire-extinguishing agent (CF3Br) into the airflow.
Fluoroelastomers such as Viton are crosslinked fluoropolymer mixtures mainly used in O-rings; perfluorobutane (C4F10) is used as a fire-extinguishing agent.
