Sentences with phrase «as flammable»

«Our practice focused on unsafe products such as flammable fabric, cars with dangerous design flaws, mechanical devices that were harming people.

Pike (weirdly convinced that liquor is as flammable as gasoline) keeps the people - torching going, up to the big reveal (spoiler!)

Fracking has already drawn considerable scrutiny from environmental groups, unhappy homeowners, and teams of lawyers who blame the drilling method for polluting pristine rivers, turning bucolic farmlands into noisy industrial zones, and leaking enough methane to make ordinary tap water as flammable as lighter fluid.

New York's architecture isn't as flammable as San Francisco's clapboard Victorians, but within 200 years, says Steven Clemants, vice president of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, tons of leaf litter would overflow gutters as pioneer weeds gave way to colonizing native oaks and maples in city parks.

The system could be placed in between the positive and negative nodes of lithium - ion batteries, which will hopefully prevent self - driving electric cars from meeting the same fate as those flammable hoverboards of Christmas - past.

In addition to its properties as a flammable solvent, ether is also a potent anesthetic.

The mattress meets fire safety standards in an intelligent and safe way: since there is no foam interior, it's not as flammable as a typical mattress, and Naturepedic uses high - quality materials and manufacturing instead of flame - resistant chemicals.

Coconut fiber belongs to the class of compounds known as flammable solids.

Not exact matches

They should include small - scale steps, such as removing flammable vegetation, pruning trees, using less - flammable construction materials, and dealing with identified vulnerabilities such as fences.

The rocket's fuel, a mix of rocket - grade kerosene known as RP - 1 and liquid oxygen, is highly flammable.

Communities should contain patchworks of flammable fuels such as vegetation, houses and cars, interspersed with less flammable and nonflammable areas such as parking lots and areas cleaned of vegetation.

The environmental response report describes diluted bitumen as a «Class 3 flammable hazardous material» with toxic constituents including benzene and hydrogen sulfide.

Heating oil is a flammable liquid used as a fuel for heaters or boilers.

Transport Canada told Postmedia News that it identified the transportation of flammable liquids, such as crude oil, as an «emerging» issue in 2011, and that it is now reviewing new safety recommendations received in recent weeks from three industry - led committees «on an urgent basis.»

Meanwhile, all 95 samples of potentially flammable cladding from tower blocks in England have failed fire safety tests, cabinet was informed, as the Prime Minister has said a major national investigation must take place into use of the material.

The filler material of a mattress is typically polyurethane foam: a material made from petroleum which is both highly flammable as well as potentially toxic.

Make sure the area surrounding the fireplace is clear of flammable objects, such as furniture, drapes or newspapers, and install both smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.

Opponents says while it will not pollute water supplies like hydrofracking can it is very dangerous as the gelled propane is flammable and explosive.

They include technical issues, such as failure to ground the tank of flammable gases or to wear gloves to prevent discharge of static electricity from the researcher to the tank, and organizational flaws, such as failure to «ensure that [the university's] safety practices were followed by employees and underscored through training, positive reinforcement and a clearly defined and communicated disciplinary system,» and the failure of «supervisors [to] understand their responsibilities under the safety and health program.»

«Organic peroxides are extremely flammable and, as agreed with public officials, the best course of action is to let the fire burn itself out,» Arkema said.

To keep up with our advancing mobile technology, energy storage devices have been subject to material shrinking in the design process, which has left them vulnerable to short circuiting — as in recent cases with Samsung's Galaxy Note devices — which, when compounded with the presence of a flammable electrolyte liquid, can create an explosive situation.

In the U.S., the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) oversees chemical and other facilities that deal with hazardous materials, making sure various «process safety» routines are followed so as to «prevent or minimize the catastrophic injury or death that could result from an accidental or purposeful release of toxic, reactive, flammable or explosive chemicals.»

Gas molecules become trapped inside a lattice structure of water, creating a crystal substance known as clathrate that is superficially similar to ice — except this stuff is flammable.

Yet it represents a leap forward for a material long regarded as too weak, variable, and flammable to support high - rise buildings.

Indeed, the pessimists among them talk about the planet being on the brink of a «global pandemic» of wildfires as a vast tinderbox of flammable shrubs and dead vegetation accumulates in forests, brush and grassland.

Scientists and some field investigators, such as Lentini, knew that flashover fires could char wood at the floor level, melt metal, and create burn patterns that might suggest poured flammable liquid.

The study — conducted by what was then the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the EPA and more than 40 other public, private and academic institutions — singled out as culprits VOCs such as ethylene, a flammable gas used mainly in the production of plastics.

The flammable liquid with a gasoline - like odor is found in coal tar and petroleum, as well as tobacco smoke.

In deforested areas, layers of peat — sometimes dozens of meters deep — become flammable as they dry out, which is sometimes exacerbated by deliberate draining in order to make them more suitable for palm oil and timber plantations.

All aqueous lithium - ion batteries benefit from the inflammability of water - based electrolytes as opposed to the highly flammable organic solvents used in their non-aqueous counterparts.

«Of the top 478 events, we identified 144 economically and socially disastrous extreme fire events that were concentrated in regions where humans have built into flammable forested landscapes, such as areas surrounding cities in southern Australia and western North America.»

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But as the liquid rushed from the trucks, it released a billowing vapor of far more volatile materials, including benzene and other flammable hydrocarbons.

The EWG advises opting for products that haven't been treated with brominated fire retardants and choosing less - flammable materials, such as wool.

As the adult, look through the photos to get ideas for any resources needed, please take care if lighting a small fire with cotton wool (very flammable) Print the pages out, the next page with the activities on is the base, you may wish to stick onto card to make more durable.

Skepticism about claims of success is always a good thing, as Liam suggested earlier, but Ravitch undermines her credibility by inventing these weak - kneed and flammable straw men to set fire to.

While it doesn't release toxic gases or excessive amounts of smoke, it is still rated B2 (normally flammable) and thus forbidden as interior material in motor vehicles, including windows.

PHMSA continues to advance a rulemaking addressing the integrity of DOT Specification 111 tanker cars and the safe shipment by rail of flammable materials such as crude oil.

«alcohol» I'd say that's a big no - no seeing as it's flammable and you can not know there won't be open spark or static.

Obviously you must be VERY careful running the car with the cap removed, as petrol vapour is highly flammable.

As always, be careful with flammable materials around a warm engine.

Further, noting that mined natural resources, such as crude oil, may have widely variable chemical compositions and properties, the Safety Alert noted that crude oil being transported from the Bakken region of North Dakota may be more flammable than traditional heavy crude oil.

Power steering leaks are fairly common, but should be looked at immediately by a qualified mechanic as power steering fluid can be flammable especially when under extreme pressure.

NOTE: On a serious note, hydraulic fluid can be flammable if it comes into contact with hot surfaces (such as engine exhaust components).

The hydraulic fluid is flammable if sprayed directly onto an ignition source or high - temperature engine component (such as an exhaust manifold) and could cause a fire.

The extremely flammable ammonia was used as refrigerant, leading to a reluctance in adoption of the mechanical contraption, especially when the natural ice industry was flourishing — after all, one enterprising New Englander had kickstarted a global trade in ice (see The Frozen Water Trade), figuring how to make a commodity out of an item that nature supplied in abundance all winter long.

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For example, some insurance companies will not insure specific types of cargo or cargo requiring hazardous material signs, such as oxygen, gasoline, or flammable placards.

As it happens, he wanted a fire quickly, so he used «flammable liquid» to start the fire, according to KXII.

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