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National Fire Protection Association
Industria: 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 mixer using the kinetic energy of a jet of fuel gas issuing from an orifice to entrain all or part of the air required for combustion.
Industry:Fire safety
A mixer using the kinetic energy of a stream of air issuing from an orifice to entrain the fuel gas required for combustion.
Industry:Fire safety
A mixture consisting of an elastomeric-type fuel and an oxidizer used in gas generators and rocket motors.
Industry:Fire safety
A mixture of a flammable gas with either a combustible dust or a combustible mist.
Industry:Fire safety
A mixture of gases that, in the liquid phase, shall conform to the following: (1) methylacetylene-propadiene (in combination, with a maximum ratio of 3. 0 moles of methylacetylene per mole of propadiene in the initial liquid phase in a storage container) — 68 mole percent maximum; (2) propane, butane, isobutane (in combination) — 24 mole percent minimum, of which at least 1⁄3 (8 mole percent of total mixture) shall be butane or isobutane; (3) propylene — 10 mole percent maximum; (4) butadiene — 2 mole percent maximum.
Industry:Fire safety
A mixture of gasoline vapor and air, or propane plus air, between the lower explosive limit (LEL) and upper explosive limit (UEL).
Industry:Fire safety
A mixture of two or more compressed gases contained in a packaging, the hazard properties of which are represented by the properties of the mixture as a whole.
Industry:Fire safety
A mixture, in any proportion, of extracted oil or fat and the extracting solvent.
Industry:Fire safety
A mobile unit designed to transport LNG, CNG, GH2, or LH2.
Industry:Fire safety
A model whose outputs are not probabilities or probability distributions; that is, they do not quantify uncertainty.
Industry:Fire safety