As lawmakers around the world weigh bans of 'forever chemicals,” many manufacturers are pushing back, saying there often is no substitute.

  • dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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).

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      8 months ago

      Electrical fires don’t generate their own oxygen.

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        8 months ago

        Well, normal electric fires don’t but, as @Vodik_VDK@lemmy.world already quoted, lithium-ion battery fires do generate their own oxygen

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          8 months ago

          That was my point to. I guess I wasn’t clear enough.

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          8 months ago

          I don’t know that it is a good thing. It just means you can’t use baking soda to out it out.