Sentences with phrase «retardants burn»

One report says «The International Association of Firefighters supports bans on these chemicals because firefighters have been shown to be at much higher risk of cancer, heart, lung and other debilitating diseases caused by the dangerous gases created when fire retardants burn.

The gases produced when materials containing flame retardants burn may be making fires more lethal

Not exact matches

Snug - fitting sleepwear — whether flame - retardant or not — is less likely to catch on fire and won't burn as rapidly, because there's less air between the clothing and your baby's skin.

The advantage of using a genuine hearth cushion is that it is flame retardant, meaning it can be exposed to the heat without burning.

His dramatic testimony about babies burned to death in furniture fires helped convince lawmakers they shouldn't scale back use of flame retardants.

Helicopters attacked it with water and flame retardant, but the fire raced uphill into a dense mixed - conifer forest and burned uncontrollably for three weeks.

Flame retardants in foam «are not effective enough to make them stop burning rapidly once they're ignited.

The current law sets no requirements for how to keep products from burning during those critical 12 seconds, so furniture manufacturers turned to an array of chemical flame retardants mixed directly into the foam.

In one case, Southern Research's analytical chemists were able to steer NASA away from using a polyurethane insulating foam with a flame - retardant additive because tests showed it produced toxic fumes when burned.

Of course, this is all tongue and cheek; there are other problems with plastics in buildings, including the fact that they burn even though they are full of terrible flame retardants and that they often are softened with gender - bending phtalates.