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Which type of extinguisher should be used on a gasoline fire?
B-I
What type of fire extinguisher is used for paper and wood?
A Class A fire extinguisher is the least expensive and most easily available type of extinguisher to use on wood or paper fires. They are normally filled with water or water-based foam and pressurized with air.
What gas is insise a fire extinguisher?
Many different types of fire extinguishers exist and many different gases are used. A water extinguisher may contain pressurized air. Other types use carbon dioxide or compressed nitrogen. There are also halogenated extinguishers containing proprietary mixtures of fire-suppression gases.
What does carbon dioxide do in a soda acid fire extinguisher?
It is the propellant used to force water out of the extinguisher.
What year did they use sulfuric acid baking soda and water in fire extinguishers?
In 1881, Almon M Granger patented a fire extinguisher which used the reaction between sodium bicarbonate and sulfuric acid to expel pressurized water. When the acid and bicarbonate mixed, carbon dioxide gas was released - which pressurized the water. These were still reasonably common up until the 1920s, but are not one of the common types of fire extinguishers used today.
What puts out a fire faster water or a fire extinguisher?
Trick question, if the fire extinguisher is full of water, such as a Class 2A. However, a fire extinguisher is designed to put out a small fire quicker than anyone can respond with a hose and a water supply. Unfortunately, many fires react violently when water is applied to them, so a different type of fire extinguisher must be used.
What is the fire extinguishers co 2 used for?
The carbon dioxide fire extinguisher can be used on electrical fires, where there is a danger of an electrical shock if a soda water extinguisher was used.
What type of extinguisher should be used on an electrical fire?
A water-type or water-based foam type of extinguisher should not be used on an electrical fire because water and foam are electrical conductors and could result in electrocution of the person using the extinguisher or anyone stepping in the water.
How are fire extinguisher distinguished?
What 'type' the fire is. The right extinguisher must be used for any fire. Or, more importantly - it can be very dangerous to use the wrong type of extinguisher, such as one with water should never be used on an electrical fire.
What type of fire extinguisher should be used on an electrical fires?
A water-type or water-based foam type of extinguisher should not be used on an electrical fire because water and foam are electrical conductors and could result in electrocution of the person using the extinguisher or anyone stepping in the water.
What year did Thomas J Martin patent a fire extinguisher?
US Patent 125,063 issued to Thomas J. Martin, on March 26, 1872 is entitled "Fire Extinguisher", but it has NOTHING to do with a portable fire extinguisher. What that patent discloses is a way to use pressurized water pipes inside buildings, supplied from the street, with valves you could open on each floor and use the spray to put out a fire. The patent says he was living in Dowagiac, Michigan at the time.
Fire extinguisher for paper?
A soda water extinguisher can be used on a fire of paper. Or use a carbon dioxide extinguisher if you don't want water damage, or if there is anything electrical that can cause a shock. Use foam on oils and flammable liquids.
