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National Fire Protection Association
Industry: Fire safety
Number of terms: 98780
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Established in 1896, NFPA's mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.
The process of removing a part of the water in sludge by any physical or mechanical method without heat, such as draining, pressing, vacuum filtration, centrifuging, or passing between rollers.
Industry:Fire safety
The quantity of fuel passing through the valve after the deadman control is released.
Industry:Fire safety
The minimum voltage, measured in volts, necessary to cause a spark through a gas mixture between electrodes that produce a uniform electric field under specified test conditions.
Industry:Fire safety
The power of an engine measured at the flywheel or output shaft at standard SAE conditions of 752. 1 mm Hg (29. 61 in. Hg) barometer at 25°C (77°F) inlet air temperature.
Industry:Fire safety
The propagation of flame over a surface.
Industry:Fire safety
The process of applying or impregnating objects or materials with the coating liquid by bringing them into contact with a roller that is coated with a liquid.
Industry:Fire safety
The regular performance of those functions for which a machine or accessory is designed.
Industry:Fire safety
The process of supplying an enclosure with a protective gas with or without continuous flow at sufficient pressure to prevent the entrance of combustible dust or ignitible fibers/flyings.
Industry:Fire safety
The quantity of heat energy that should be absorbed by a substance to ignite and burn.
Industry:Fire safety
The result of subtracting three standard deviations from the mean result of the lot being tested using the formula in 8. 2. 5. 2.
Industry:Fire safety