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National Fire Protection Association
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 product that is dispensed from an aerosol container by a propellant.
Industry:Fire safety
A product manufactured by a commercial manufacturer that contains the components and parts used to reload and reuse a reloadable rocket motor casing.
Industry:Fire safety
A process to characterize the risk associated with fire that addresses the fire scenario or fire scenarios of concern, their probability, and their potential consequences. Other documents may use other terms, such as fireriskanalysis, firehazard, hazardanalysis, and firehazardanalysisassessment, to characterize fire risk assessment as used in this guide.
Industry:Fire safety
A process that uses physical or mechanical evaporation techniques with or without the application of heat to achieve solids concentrations greater than 85 percent.
Industry:Fire safety
A process that has the potential to cause harm to personnel, equipment, structures, or product in the event of an uncontrolled failure.
Industry:Fire safety
A process or technique to help resolve a model.
Industry:Fire safety
A process of removing heat, smoke, and gases from a fire area by using exhaust fans, blowers, air-conditioning systems, or smoke ejectors.
Industry:Fire safety
A process of agitating foam solution and air in a confined space such as a hose, pipe, or mixing chamber to produce bubbles.
Industry:Fire safety
A process in which municipal solid waste is hauled directly to a tipping floor or storage pit and then is used as a boiler fuel without any special processing.
Industry:Fire safety
A process in which a drycleaning operation precedes or follows a laundering operation in the same equipment.
Industry:Fire safety