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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.
Means of connection designed to electrically and mechanically connect a metal shield to another metal shield, to a receptacle housing or self-contained device, or to a transition assembly.
Industry:Fire safety
Materials, such as iron, cobalt, and nickel, that have an abnormally high magnetic permeability.
Industry:Fire safety
Materials, including explosives, blasting agents, and detonators, that are authorized for transportation by the Department of Transportation or the Department of Defense as explosive materials.
Industry:Fire safety
Materials, fittings, devices, appliances, and the like that are part of, or in connection with, an electrical installation.
Industry:Fire safety
Materials that in themselves are capable of detonation or explosive decomposition or explosive reaction, but that require a strong initiating source or that must be heated under confinement before initiation.
Industry:Fire safety
Materials that have a burning rate of 1. 06 mm/s or less when tested at a nominal thickness of 0. 152 mm (0. 060 in. ) or in the thickness intended for use.
Industry:Fire safety
Materials that have a burning extent of 25 mm or less when tested at a nominal thickness of 0. 152 mm (0. 060 in. ) or in the thickness intended for use.
Industry:Fire safety
Materials that can initiate, catalyze, or accelerate the decomposition of organic peroxide formulations or that can cause hazardous reactions when in contact with such formulations.
Industry:Fire safety
Materials that are combustible or flammable liquids, flammable gases, and combustible dusts.
Industry:Fire safety
Materials that are capable of being induced to undergo nuclear fission by slow neutrons.
Industry:Fire safety