The 'usual' liquid of choice - is paraffin. It's much easier to control than other substances.
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Since petroleum is a flammable liquid, a Class B fire extinguisher would be used.
A label for a flammable liquid typically depicts a flame over a liquid, while a label for a flammable gas usually includes a flame or gas cylinder symbol. The label for a flammable liquid may also indicate the specific type of liquid, while the label for a flammable gas may specify the type of gas.
Burning liquids such as gasoline, kerosene, paint, acetone, and so on.
A CO2 fire extinguisher will work on flammable liquid and electrical fires only. If used on any other type of fire they will just give it more oxygen and it will spread.
It is harder to start a combustible liquid buring than to start a flammable liquid burning. In most cases, however, neither type of liquid is "unstable." Both are simply liquids that can burn if ignited. Being "unstable" means that it might detonate or explode.
Its any fire which involves a liquid substance that can cat light i.e petrol fires are liquid fires, as is over heated cooking oil. This would be fires where the use of water to fight them would prove more damgerous as the pressure of the injected water could and does splash the ignited fired liquid over other distances and this causes more fires to fight.It these styles of fire co2 gas and or foam is normally used - in a kitching cooking oil fire a fire blanket can be used to starve the fire of oxygen.
There is no liquid powder extinguisher on the market.
A type b extinguisher puts out a class B fire, i.e., flammable/combustible liquids and gases.
Liquid
B-1 is for a Class B fire, that is, flammable/combustible liquids and gases.
B on fire extinguishers generally means that it can be used to put out flammable liquid fires. B1 means it will do so, but not especially well (1 is the lowest ranking).A is for flammable solids, C is for electrical fires.Usually the number appears before the letter, so 1-B rather than B1. Properly used, a 1-B extinguisher can be reasonably expected to put out a puddle of flaming liquid about 2.5 square feet in area. If you've never had specific training in using one, you probably WILL NOT use it properly; for flammable liquid fires, unless it's an extremely small fire it's almost always better to call 911 than to try to use a fire extinguisher on it (you're more likely to spread it than extinguish it).