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CISDOC database
| Document ID (ISN) | 32574 |
| CIS number |
79-1827 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
National Safety News |
| Year |
1979 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Title |
Fire protection for combustible metals. |
| Bibliographic information |
Data Sheet 1-567-79 Revised 1979, National Safety Council, 444 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Chicago, USA, June 1979, Vol.119, No.6, p.75-82. Illus. 4 ref. |
| Abstract |
Only the more common metals that are easily ignitable and able to support combustion are covered, not all burnable metals and alloys. Self-igniting (pyrophoric) alkali and reactor fuel metals (plutonium, thorium, uranium) and non-self igniting commercial structural (magnesium, titanium) and reactor metals (zirconium, hafnium) are included. General recommendations (fire and explosion prevention, handling and working massive and powdered metals, waste disposal); specific recommendations (alkali metals, sodium-potassium alloys, reactor fuel metals, non-pyrophoric metals); methods and techniques of extinguishment (extinguishing agents, personal hazards) are discussed. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
combustible solids; USA; metalworking industry; fire protection; metal fires |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
fire fighting; potassium sodium alloy; reactors; cesium; hafnium; thorium; uranium; plutonium; rubidium; zirconium; lithium; pyrophoric substances; waste disposal; extinguishing agents; explosion prevention; fire prevention; potassium; titanium; data sheet; sodium; magnesium |
| Document type |
F - Information notes, codes of practice, standards |
| Subject(s) |
Fire and explosions
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Fires
Metalworking industry
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