Compositions – Fire-extinguishing
Patent
1995-06-07
1996-05-21
Geist, Gary
Compositions
Fire-extinguishing
252 4, 252 805, 252610, 252611, 252601, 2523156, 25231501, A62D 100, A62D 106, B01J 1300
Patent
active
055186386
ABSTRACT:
The invention concerns the production and use of thickened synthetic amorphous silica in water as a fire extinguishing and protection agent in which the water is mixed with 1% to 9% by weight of fumed silica, and the resulting thin fluid suspension is rapidly thickened with mixing and shearing by the addition of from 0.003% to about 0.5% by weight of an additive selected from the group consisting of polyethylene glycols, polypropylene glycols, and their derivatives thereof, wherein the additive has a molar mass between 700 and 600,000.
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Buil Jurgen
Lohnert Gernot
Anthony Joseph D.
Geist Gary
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