- Industria: 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.
A process for removing excess wet coating material, such as drips, from the bottom edge of a dipped or coated object or material by passing it through an electrostatic field.
Industry:Fire safety
A process for managing and transmitting electronic data that may include computer based systems; alarm systems; security systems; video; regional, local, site, or building management; and information systems.
Industry:Fire safety
A process either physical or chemical by which an emulsion is broken down to its original constituents.
Industry:Fire safety
A process by which the coating liquid is discharged in an unatomized state from nozzles, slots, or other openings onto the object or material to be coated.
Industry:Fire safety
A process by which radiant flux of certain wavelengths is absorbed and reradiated nonthermally in other, usually longer wavelengths.
Industry:Fire safety
A process by which objects or materials are immersed in a liquid coating.
Industry:Fire safety
A process by which an object or material is coated by passing it through a vertically flowing film of liquid.
Industry:Fire safety
A process by which an alarm answered at the communications center is retransmitted to emergency response facilities (ERFs) or to emergency response units (ERUs) in the field.
Industry:Fire safety
A procedure for purging and lighting off a boiler under specified, controlled conditions.
Industry:Fire safety
A procedure for ascertaining the tightness of a chimney and for detecting any cracks in a masonry chimney flue or deterioration or breaks in the integrity of a metal chimney flue, and that involves igniting a smoke bomb or building a smoky fire in a fireplace or solid fuel-burning appliance, covering the chimney termination, and checking for smoke escapage through the chimney walls.
Industry:Fire safety
