- 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 non-collapsible hose used under positive pressure having an elastomeric or thermoplastic tube, a braided or spiraled reinforcement, and an outer protective cover.
Industry:Fire safety
A nonadjustable device built into an appliance, or made a part of the vent connector from an appliance, that is designed to (1) provide for the ready escape of the flue gases from the appliance in the event of no draft, backdraft, or stoppage beyond the draft hood, (2) prevent a backdraft from entering the appliance, and (3) neutralize the effect of stack action of the chimney or gas vent upon the operation of the appliance.
Industry:Fire safety
A nitrated cellulose (cotton linters or wood pulp) with a nitrogen content ranging from 10. 5 percent to 12. 6 percent by weight.
Industry:Fire safety
A naturally formed inorganic substance occurring in the earth’s crust and having a consistent and distinct set of physical properties and a composition that can be expressed by a chemical formula.
Industry:Fire safety
A natural seed fiber wrapped and secured in industry-accepted materials, usually consisting of burlap, woven polypropylene, or sheet polyethylene, and secured with steel, synthetic or wire bands, or wire; also includes linters (lint removed from the cottonseed) and motes (residual materials from the ginning process).
Industry:Fire safety
A natural outdoor feature(s), such as hills or trees, with a density sufficient to prevent surrounding exposures that require protection from being seen from a magazine or building containing explosives when the trees are bare of leaves.
Industry:Fire safety
A natural or artificial barrier that effectively screens a magazine, building, railway, or highway from the effects of an explosion in a magazine or building containing explosives.
Industry:Fire safety
A natural lighter-than-air gas compressed for use as a fuel that consists principally of methane in gaseous form plus naturally occurring mixtures of hydrocarbon gases.
Industry:Fire safety
A natural gas or hydrogen installation that dispenses CNG, LNG, LGH2, GH2/CNG mixtures, or GH2 from storage containers or a distribution pipeline into fuel supply containers or into portable cylinders by means of a compressor, reformer, vaporizer, or pressure booster.
Industry:Fire safety
