Sentences with phrase «made halons»
These properties made halons an ideal choice for protecting computers, archives and works of art.
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Bromotrifluoromethane (CF3Br, or halon 1301) is a close cousin to halon 1211, but has a much lower boiling point and toxic level — properties that have made halon 1301 the firefighting chemical of choice for applications where sprinklers can not be used.
France, Britain and Belgium all argued that they should be allowed to continue to make some halons, claiming they are needed for the new generation of trains designed to run through the Channel Tunnel.
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The discovery that CFCs — as well as halons, carbon tetrachloride, methyl chloride, methyl chloroform, and methyl bromides (collectively grouped as ozone depleting substances [ODS]-RRB--- were so damaging to the ozone, made worldwide headlines.