Sentences with phrase «because halon»
Because halon displaces oxygen, it extinguished electrical, grease and other fires that water alone could not, says Robert Kaul, ARA Safety's technical director.
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The company has trained workers to use water to fight electrical switchgear fires if halon is not available, the report said, raising the risk of flooding in adjacent rooms with electrical controls because flood doors have not been established.
These include methane, nitrous oxide («laughing gas»), halons, methyl bromide and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which are notorious as «ozone killers» because they play a major role in ozone depletion in the polar regions.
The stratospheric ozone layer has become substantially depleted throughout much of the globe since the 1980s because of enhanced human production and use of ozone - depleting chemicals, such as chlorofluorocarbons, halons, and others, during the 20th century.