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National Fire Protection Association
Industry: Fire safety
Number of terms: 98780
Number of blossaries: 0
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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.
Air supplied for combustion that is admitted into the furnace at a point above the burners or fuel bed.
Industry:Fire safety
Air removed from a space or power system and not reused.
Industry:Fire safety
Air or inert gas that is introduced into the pulverizer to dry the fuel, aid in pulverization and classification, and convey the pulverized fuel from the pulverizer.
Industry:Fire safety
Air or inert gas supplied to any device at sufficient pressure for the specific purpose of minimizing contamination.
Industry:Fire safety
Air for cooling, heating, or ventilation distributed to habitable spaces.
Industry:Fire safety
Air deliberately brought into the structure, then specifically to the vicinity of either a combustion process or a mechanically or thermally forced exhausting device, to compensate for the vapor and/or gases being consumed or expelled.
Industry:Fire safety
Air atmospheres containing more than 23. 5 percent oxygen by volume at one standard atmosphere pressure.
Industry:Fire safety
Air atmospheres containing more than 23. 5 percent oxygen by volume at one standard atmosphere pressure.
Industry:Fire safety
Air atmospheres containing less than 19. 5 percent oxygen by volume at one standard atmosphere pressure.
Industry:Fire safety
Agglomerations of dry chemical that do not crumble into particles when dropped from a height of 4 in. (101 mm) onto a hard surface.
Industry:Fire safety