The compartment didn't have a halon gas fire suppression system. From Wordnik.com. [Battery Safety Fight: Pilots Take On Big Business After Deadly Crash] Reference
Her respirator would be of small help in filtering out the inert halon. From Wordnik.com. [Sparks] Reference
And since halon systems had been built into every cranny of La-La Land. From Wordnik.com. [Time Scout]
She coughed the sweetness of the halon and the bitterness of the magick out of her lungs. From Wordnik.com. [Sparks] Reference
CHAPTER TWENTY An instant later, the fire-control system cut in, spraying clouds of halon into the room. From Wordnik.com. [Time Scout]
Can be smothered by foam or halon gas; a service tunnel between the two rail tunnels provides an escape route. From Wordnik.com. [Why Do Brits Hate The Chunnel?] Reference
There is also concern that if a large quantity of lithium-ion batteries was to ignite, it could overwhelm a halon suppression system. From Wordnik.com. [Battery Safety Fight: Pilots Take On Big Business After Deadly Crash] Reference
The hacker slapped the scram switch with his palm and the power went off; halon gas shot into the computer housing and extinguished the flames. From Wordnik.com. [Forgetfulness] Reference
The halon gas fire suppression systems required in the cargo compartments of passenger planes don't work on fires caused by lithium metal batteries. From Wordnik.com. [Battery Safety Fight: Pilots Take On Big Business After Deadly Crash] Reference
The older of the two, Carol, started talking with me when she caught me staring at the enormous halon-like fire suppression system bolted to the wall over my head. From Wordnik.com. [March « 2009 « Dynamic Subspace] Reference
If there was a fire you hit the scram button, which shut off the computer, summoned the fire department and dumped halon gas on the machine to extinguish the flames. From Wordnik.com. [Forgetfulness] Reference
A braying alarm sounded from the ceiling and with a piercing hiss, streams of halon gas shot from pipes above and below the machine, enveloping the room's occupants -- one human, one not -- in a ghostly white fog. From Wordnik.com. [Forgetfulness] Reference
The family of CFC chemicals, and their related bromine halon compounds, are stable, nonflammable, nontoxic and non-corrosive – qualities that made them uniquely useful in many consumer and industrial applications. From Wordnik.com. [Science, diplomacy, and the Montreal Protocol] Reference
In the LXX both halon and halos are of common gender. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of Septuagint Greek] Reference
Most home-use extinguishers contain either halon or various dry chemicals. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Apparently the compartment was sealed and the halon discharged without a warning sounding. From Wordnik.com. [Why Now?] Reference
The problem with this ingenious hypothesis is that German halon ~ holon never meant "call.". From Wordnik.com. [OUPblog] Reference
But the kinship of halon with calare cannot be proved: the sounds match, whereas the meanings do not. From Wordnik.com. [OUPblog] Reference
It also recommends stowing battery shipments in cargo compartments in the belly of planes, where there are halon gas fire suppression systems. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
The wealthy do in fact often pay for their own private security, fire prevention technology (sprinklers, halon, etc), private investigators, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
The halon fire suppression systems used in the lower cargo compartments of passenger and cargo planes aren't able to put out fires caused by lithium metal batteries. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
Farman also recommends that cash be set aside to combat leakage of ozone-depleting chemicals, such as the fire retardant halon 1301, from developing world installations. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel] Reference
You'd have a hard job getting freon / halon gas as an extinguishing medium, the manufacturing of it was banned in Europe years ago and most of it has been phased out, it's a CFC gas. From Wordnik.com. [Toytown Germany - Germany feed] Reference
They had halon in that room. From Wordnik.com. [Sparks] Reference
Got halon?. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #20 « Climate Audit] Reference
# halon 21 Sep 2006 at 11:54 am. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on The Last Colony « Whatever] Reference
Cloud banks: airlines save halon. (. From Wordnik.com. [Six Dollars a Gallon and Lenny Bruce] Reference
They’d been using halon gas to suppress the fire. From Wordnik.com. [Sparks] Reference
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