- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
- Number of blossaries: 0
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An oxidizer that does not moderately increase the burning rate of combustible materials with which it comes into contact.
Industry:Fire safety
An oxidizer that causes a severe increase in the burning rate of combustible materials with which it comes into contact.
Industry:Fire safety
An oxidizer that can undergo an explosive reaction due to contamination or exposure to thermal or physical shock and that causes a severe increase in the burning rate of combustible materials with which it comes into contact.
Industry:Fire safety
An oxidizer that can undergo an explosive reaction due to contamination or exposure to thermal or physical shock and that causes a severe increase in the burning rate of combustible materials with which it comes into contact.
Industry:Fire safety
An owner-or user-protected premises where two or more protected premises, controlled by the same owner or user, are separated by a public thoroughfare, body of water, transportation right-of-way, or property owned or used by others.
Industry:Fire safety
An overcurrent resulting from a short circuit due to a fault or an incorrect connection in an electric circuit.
Industry:Fire safety
An overcurrent protective device with a circuit-opening fusible part that is heated and severed by the passage of overcurrent through it.
Industry:Fire safety
An overcurrent protective device that generally consists of a control module that provides current sensing, electronically derived time-current characteristics, energy to initiate tripping, and an interrupting module that interrupts current when an overcurrent occurs. Electronically actuated fuses may or may not operate in a current-limiting fashion, depending on the type of control selected.
Industry:Fire safety
An oven that utilizes a low-oxygen atmosphere to evaporate solvent to facilitate solvent recovery.
Industry:Fire safety
An oven primarily intended for volume food preparation that may be composed of one or more sections or units of the following types: (1) cabinet oven, an oven having one or more cavities heated by a single burner or group of burners; (2) reel-type oven, an oven employing trays that are moved by mechanical means; or (3) sectional oven, an oven composed of one or more independently heated cavities.
Industry:Fire safety
