As lawmakers around the world weigh bans of 'forever chemicals,” many manufacturers are pushing back, saying there often is no substitute.
As lawmakers around the world weigh bans of 'forever chemicals,” many manufacturers are pushing back, saying there often is no substitute.
So for electrical fires, they use carbon dioxide to smother the fire and sodium bicarbonate to aid in putting it out, along with class c fire extinguishers. Class c are just carbon dioxide.
For chemical fires, carbon dioxide extinguishers are also used. They can use extinguishers with bromochlorodifluoromethane, aka Halon 1211, (which I guess could be a pfas chemical, but I don’t find anything either way).
Electrical fires don’t generate their own oxygen.
Well, normal electric fires don’t but, as @[email protected] already quoted, lithium-ion battery fires do generate their own oxygen
That was my point to. I guess I wasn’t clear enough.
Good thing a lithium fire isn’t an electrical fire then, isn’t it?
I don’t know that it is a good thing. It just means you can’t use baking soda to out it out.