- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
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Established in 1896, NFPA's mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.
A special effect created through the use of pyrotechnic materials and devices.
Industry:Fire safety
A special Class 3 high energy electrical igniter capable of directly igniting the main burner fuel.
Industry:Fire safety
A special atmosphere that contains components that, in their pure state, are flammable but that, in the mixtures used (diluted with nonflammable gases), are not reliably and predictably flammable.
Industry:Fire safety
A special atmosphere of gases that are known to be nonflammable at any temperature.
Industry:Fire safety
A special atmosphere in which gases are known to be flammable and predictably ignitable where mixed with air.
Industry:Fire safety
A special atmosphere created in an ammonia dissociator, exothermic generator, or endothermic generator by dissociation or chemical reaction of reaction air and reaction gas.
Industry:Fire safety
A space, within a location intended for the examination and treatment of patients, extending 1. 8 m (6 ft) beyond the normal location of the bed, chair, table, treadmill, or other device that supports the patient during examination and treatment and extending vertically to 2. 3 m (7 ft 6 in. ) above the floor.
Industry:Fire safety
A space within a building that is enclosed by fire barriers on all sides, including the top and bottom.
Industry:Fire safety
A space within a building that has an open pathway to a large-volume space such that smoke from a fire either in the communicating space or in a large-volume space can move from one to another without restriction.
Industry:Fire safety
