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oxygen. By removing one of these three components, a fire extinguisher effectively suppresses a fire. For example, water cools the heat, while foam or CO2 can displace oxygen. Different types of extinguishers are designed to target specific classes of fires by addressing these elements in various ways.
What else can I help you with?
Which type of fire extinguisher works best to put out a computer fire?
A carbon dioxide (CO2) fire extinguisher is best for putting out a computer fire.
How does a Wet chemical Extinguisher Work?
it takes one of the elements of the fire triangle
What is a fire extinguisher with a red band or triangle?
Assuming this extinguisher is following Australian rules, that is a dry chemical extinguisher. If this is an American extinguisher, there are no standards, only conventions, and I couldn't tell you by color alone.
How do fire extinguisher valve works?
valve releases stufff inside. puts out fire.
On a fire extinguisher which symbol represents combustible metals or class D fuels?
Triangle
The best tool to extinguish a small gasoline or diesel fire?
A nice working fire extinguisher. Ussually they are red and hanging some where in the house. The ABC rated or the CO2 fire extinguisher works. DO NOT USE WATER!!
Diagram of fire extinguisher?
how does a fire extinguisher work
What fire extinguisher for electrical fire?
A Class C fire extinguisher.
What fire extinguisher for electric fire?
A Class C fire extinguisher.
What do fire extinguishers remove from the fire triangle?
It depends upon what kind of extinguisher it is. Water, for example, removes the heat from a fire by turning into steam and by removing available air/oxygen from the flames. Other extinguishers remove the oxygen from the fire or change the chemical reaction to stop the fire from converting the fuel to a flammable substance with the available heat.
Why did tj marshall invent the fire extinguisher?
There is no indication that anyone named "T.J. Marshall" invented any fire extinguisher. However, there was a US Patent 125,063 issued to Thomas J. Martin, on March 26, 1872, entitled "Fire Extinguisher". Actually it was a type of fire standpipe and sprinkler in which water pressure from a reservoir and pump pushes water up pipes and into a building to a valve that can be opened to make the water spray out of nozzles. This is nothing like what came to be known as the "portable fire extinguisher" we have now.
How do you put a plane fire out?
By using a fire extinguisher, which will take away the oxygen. this means that the fire triangle will lose a side. the fire triangle consists of 3 things, heat/fuel/oxygen. when doing this you have to use the right extinguisher. for plane fires use water foam to separate the fuel from the oxygen. (water foam is like foam bubbles but a lot more sticky)
