Sentences with phrase «in flammable»

You can find them at Macy's in the flammable section.»

A law review editor and cum laude graduate of Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College and a magna cum laude graduate of University of Maryland Baltimore County, Steve began his career working alongside Joe C. Freeman Jr., a legendary Atlanta trial lawyer known for defending the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company in suicide cases, representing JCPenney in flammable pajama cases and serving as national counsel for Chrysler.

There was no need to clad the building in flammable plastic.

A policy of putting out all fires, first instituted in 1910, led to a long - term increase in flammable undergrowth in forest where fire is part of the natural order.

Aimee Bender is the author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (a NY Times Notable Book), An Invisible Sign of My Own (an L.A. Times pick of the year), Willful Creatures nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of... (more)

What I don't want to have is a hot valve lying in flammable solvent over night; --RRB-

Fires play an essential ecological role in flammable ecosystems: some are managed to clear forests, promote grazing and establish plants6, while others are suppressed to protect human lives and property, regardless of how they ignite.

A: Part of the take - home is that, given we do play such a substantial role in starting our own wildfires, we need to accept living in flammable places.

The unlikely pairing of an equine veterinarian and a burn surgeon is providing a second chance at a normal life for a horse that was doused in flammable liquid and set on fire late last summer.

People attempting the fire challenge, mostly teenagers, douse themselves in flammable liquid, set themselves on fire and jump into a running shower to put out the fire.

Not exact matches

The flammable gas is a natural byproduct of how they digest fiber, Bruce Woodacre, an expert on cow nutrition, told Business Insider in an email.

In the orange radius, people with exposed skin would suffer from third - degree burns, and flammable materials would catch on fire, leading to possible firestorms.

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.

Pastor Wilson said he hoped the letter from residents would help ensure someone takes responsibility for the cladding that was on the Grenfell Tower and added «heads have got to roll in other words because it didn't need to happen had they chosen the one that was not flammable».

And never do this in a stove top pressure cooker because alcohol fumes are flammable.

The mattress material is generally flammable and able burn to the ground in a few minutes leaving just metal springs of the crib.

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.

Also, hide the other flammable substances from the children that are used in the home.

The primary filling material used in most mattresses is polyurethane foam — a highly flammable petroleum - based material.

Councils across the country will be handed millions of pounds to replace flammable tower block cladding in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy,...

The Niagara Falls Airport is closed and variety of emergency agencies remain on scene in Niagara Falls Tuesday, where a tanker leaking refrigerated hydrogen is a flammable, explosive hazard to the area.

New York City officials want to make sure that a business that caught fire last week under a critical stretch of the Metro - North Railroad tracks in Harlem doesn't store flammable gas and liquids, seeking to place such conditions on an amended lease with the Urban Garden Center.

While I understand the desire to switch to a domestic energy source and the financial enticement of that, high - pressured hydraulic fracturing, which is a relatively new form of fracturing within the decade, has been linked to a 1000 cases of groundwater contamination, including flammable tap water in Colorado, methane explosions in West Virginia, and poisoned, flammable water in Pennsylvania.

The initiative would not only increase the cap but also would upgrade geographically specific spill response plans for state and federal officials, establish a state liquid firefighting task force that would be in charge of deploying flammable liquid firefighting foam and other supplies along rail lines across the state and provide more training for local fire crews who would often be first responders to spills.

«LPG fracturing returns polluting products to the surface that must be properly handled and disposed, in this case, flammable gases that would have to be collected in pressurized tanks or flared — a step generating air emissions and leaks that can harm public health and safety,» they wrote.

It is unthinkable and unacceptable that so many people can die in a disaster like Grenfell and one year on flammable cladding has not been banned.»

Prestia also said that there were no flammable liquids found in Raffa's car and that the car was «safeguarded» by police during the day until it was removed by the governor's detective - bodyguard, Benjamin Pepitone — who is not related to the Cuomo family.

When Kanzius placed salt water in the path of the waves, however, the water broke apart into oxygen and hydrogen, a flammable gas.

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.»

Some owners of Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphones learned the hard way last year that lithium - ion batteries, commonly used in many consumer electronics, can be flammable and even explosive.

The oils and the solvents in which they are suspended can be flammable.

Shortly prior to explosion, each pit had developed a viscous foam that stored and then expelled huge amounts of highly flammable methane, produced by bacteria in the pits.

The previous code was developed for flammable gases in an industrial setting, which carries different risks compared to hydrogen fuel at a fueling station.

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

Meanwhile a heated platinum bead in the detector ignites whatever flammable gases it encounters and then measures the resulting heat.

But in January 1967, during a trial countdown on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy, a short circuit next to some flammable material in an atmosphere of pure oxygen produced a sudden inferno.

Ammonium nitrate is a high explosive [when mixed with flammable or easily oxidized substances]-- it was used to bomb the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City 5 years ago.

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.

When the smoke layer descends to almost floor level, a mass of air violently rushes in, igniting the entire flammable mixture.

In some cases, they have found, a flammable liquid actually protects a floor from bursting into flames because the liquid shields it from radiant heat.

He then reproduced the same pattern in his tests without using a flammable liquid.

«Some biodegradable plastics have a bunch of bad properties — they have a poor barrier and they're flammable,» says Jaime Grunlan at Texas A&M University in College Station.

«The safety hazard of lithium - ion batteries are rooted in the highly flammable and toxic non-aqueous electrolytes used therein.

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.

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.

Who would have known that the oils in the zest were so flammable?

«Borane dimethyl sulfide, one of the reagents used in the process up to now, if opened to air, reacts with the moisture in the air, releasing hydrogen, a highly flammable gas, which could catch fire; so extreme caution needs to be used.

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.