Search results for fire retardants:
Flame retardants prove ineffective on fresh-cut Christmas trees
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Dec 12, 2008 |
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This Christmas season, think twice about spending money on a commercial flame retardant for your Christmas tree. The good, old-fashioned method—keeping your tree in a container of fresh water—is probably all you need to keep ...
Carbon Nanofibers Cut Flammability of Upholstered Furniture
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon, the active ingredient in charcoal, is normally not considered a fire retardant, but researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have determined that adding a ...
Study finds fire retardant in Great Lakes
Jan 14, 2006 |
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A fire retardant that has been in use for more than 40 years has been found in sediments and in the tissue of fish in some of the Great Lakes.
UMass Amherst Scientists Create Fire-Safe Plastic
May 30, 2007 |
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Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have created a synthetic polymer—a building block of plastics—that doesn’t burn, making it an attractive alternative to traditional plastics, many of which are so flammable ...
Rapacious Rasberry ants march north
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Poor Texas. First it was killer bees, then fire ants. Now, it's the Rasberry ants.
Electrosurgical devices, lasers cited as most common igniters of operating room fires
Oct 06, 2009 |
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While operating room fires can occur in a variety of clinical settings, it is the use of lasers and electrosurgical devices that are most likely to cause them. Those are the findings in new research presented at the 2009 ...
Slow melt of heavy snow better for the environment
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 20, 2008 |
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Water is on the minds of many Canadians at the moment, and not just because this Saturday is World Water Day. The record level accumulation of snow laden with imported moisture brought up from the Gulf of ...
Parents warn of fire pit danger
Aug 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chris and Lindsey Deems know firsthand how dangerous beach fire pits can be to children. Their daughter Delaney, 2, suffered second- and third-degree burns to her feet when she stepped into ...
Chemicals used as fire retardants could be harmful, researchers say
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), chemicals used as fire retardants, can be found in numerous items in the home, such as the television, computer, toaster and the sofa. Now, as reported in a KNBC story on Nov. 28, they are being found in alarmin ...
Less than 1 in 3 Toronto bystanders who witness a cardiac arrest try to help: Study
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital working in conjunction with EMS services, paramedics and fire services across Ontario found that a bystander who attempts cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can quadruple the survival ...
A silo fire doesn't have to ruin all stored silage
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes, when harvest conditions are less than ideal, silage with lower-than-optimum moisture levels is put into a silo, potentially leading to excessive heating and a spontaneous-combustion ...
GE to sell security unit to United Technologies
Nov 12, 2009 |
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US conglomerate General Electric on Thursday announced it would sell its security unit to United Technologies Corp. for 1.82 billion dollars.
Review: A riff on robotics with self-tuning guitar
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- New cars have been tuning themselves for the better part of two decades now, so it should feel less impressive that Gibson has built a guitar that can smoothly do the same.
Smoke From Station Fire Blankets Southern California
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Triple-digit temperatures, extremely low relative humidities, dense vegetation that has not burned in decades, and years of extended drought are all contributing to the explosive growth of wildfires throughout ...
'Jammed Networks' may clear the way for better nanomaterials
Dec 02, 2005 |
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Jammed networks may cause upheaval in phone systems, but among wispy carbon nanotubes or nanofibers, a similar phenomenon may greatly improve flammability resistance and, perhaps, other properties in polymers, re ...
