Flame retardants are a diverse group of chemicals that are added to manufactured materials, such as plastics and textiles, and surface finishes and coatings...
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Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) are organobromine compounds that have an inhibitory effect on combustion chemistry and tend to reduce the flammability...
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igniting. By dilution: Some retardants release water and/or carbon dioxide while burning. This may dilute the radicals in the flame enough for it to go out...
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provides advice on how to prevent fires such as through the use of flame-retardant temporary protection materials: for example, some high quality floor...
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Fire-retardant fabrics are textiles that are more resistant to fire than others through chemical treatment of flame-retardant or manufactured fireproof...
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Organophosphate (section Flame retardants)
insecticides, herbicides, nerve agents and flame retardants. OPEs have been widely used in various products as flame retardants, plasticizers, and performance additives...
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Hydrated silica (section Flame retardant)
their effectivity. A hydrated silica compound's effectiveness as a flame retardant is dependent upon the presence of chemically bonded transition metals...
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Ammonium sulfamate (section Flame retardant)
spectrum herbicide, with additional uses as a compost accelerator, flame retardant and in industrial processes. It is a salt formed from ammonia and sulfamic...
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Phosphorus (section Flame retardant)
phosphorus on the world market. Phosphorus compounds are used as flame retardants. Flame-retardant materials and coatings are being developed that are both phosphorus-...
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Chemical Flame-Retardant Alternatives for Low-Density Polyurethane Foam". United States Environmental Protection Agency. September 2005. "Flame Retardants Used...
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used for flame-retardant, polishing, catalyst, and niche ceramic applications, as well as magnesium hydroxide mainly used as a flame-retardant. It is one...
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Bromine (section Flame retardants)
commercial use of bromine. When the brominated material burns, the flame retardant produces hydrobromic acid which interferes in the radical chain reaction...
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Magnesium hydroxide (section Fire retardant)
magnesium hydroxide as a flame retardant include additives to cable insulation, insulation plastics, roofing, and various flame retardant coatings. Brucite,...
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Metalloid (section Flame retardants)
their compounds are used in alloys, biological agents, catalysts, flame retardants, glasses, optical storage and optoelectronics, pyrotechnics, semiconductors...
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Antimony (section Flame retardants)
Antimony trioxide is a prominent additive for halogen-containing flame retardants. Antimony is used as a dopant in semiconductor devices. Antimony is...
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Potassium alum (section Flame retardant)
add crispness to fruit and vegetables. Potassium alum is used as a fire retardant to render cloth, wood, and paper materials less flammable. Potassium alum...
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Expandable graphite (section Flame retardant)
used. One of the main applications of expandable graphite is as a flame retardant. When exposed to heat, expandable graphite expands and forms an intumescent...
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Deflagration (section Flame physics)
+ flagrare, 'to burn down') is subsonic combustion in which a pre-mixed flame propagates through an explosive or a mixture of fuel and oxidizer. Deflagrations...
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FR-4 (redirect from Flame Retardant 4)
cloth with an epoxy resin binder that is flame resistant (self-extinguishing). "FR" stands for "flame retardant", and does not denote that the material...
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Dimethyl methylphosphonate (category Flame retardants)
CH3PO(OCH3)2. It is a colourless liquid, which is primarily used as a flame retardant. Dimethyl methylphosphonate can be prepared from trimethyl phosphite...
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Tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl)phosphate (category Flame retardants)
used as flame retardants, pesticides, plasticizers, and nerve gases. TDCPP is structurally similar to several other organophosphate flame retardants, such...
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sulfate has also been used in flame retardant compositions acting much like diammonium phosphate. As a flame retardant, it increases the combustion temperature...
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Retardant may refer to: Fire retardant Flame retardant This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Retardant. If an internal link...
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Combustibility and flammability (section Flame point)
the United States. The proliferation of flame retardants, and especially halogenated organic flame retardants, in furniture across the United States is...
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volumeĀ %; thus, a flame retardant is added to styrene or polystyrene during the formation of EPS. The boards containing a flame retardant when tested in...
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circuit boards. There are different types of CEMs: CEM-1 is low-cost, flame-retardant, cellulose-paper-based laminate with only one layer of woven glass...
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borate esters. Boric acid is often used as an antiseptic, insecticide, flame retardant, neutron absorber, or precursor to other boron compounds. The term...
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University of Washington. He gained notoriety as the "star witness" for the flame retardant industry. In 2014 he surrendered his medical license after it became...
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cables, reinforcement fibre for composite materials, insect netting, flame-retardant and protective fabric, soundproof, fireproof, and insulating fibres...
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Nomex (category Flame retardant fabrics)
Nomex is a flame-resistant meta-aramid material developed in the early 1960s by DuPont and first marketed in 1967. Nomex and related aramid polymers are...
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