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Types of dry fire extinguishers, compositions of extinguishing agents?

Types of dry fire extinguishers, compositions of extinguishing agents?

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ABC powder extinguishing agent: this kind of fire extinguishing agent can be solid, liquid, gas and electric equipment fire, the most widely applicable. Can be used for all types of public places, offices, hotels, hotels, cars, ships and even family, but not for fighting fire. There are a lot of metal materials should be equipped with ABC powder extinguishing agent places but erroneously equipped with BC powder;
BC powder extinguishing agent: BC powder can extinguish BC fire. Fire for flammable and combustible liquid, gas and electric equipment, not suitable for solid material fire. Therefore, prone to flammable liquid gas fire and charged fire in the room, kitchen, room and other places like, can be equipped with BC powder fire extinguishing agent. But these places are not pure liquid and gas fire; therefore, these places are mostly equipped with ABC powder extinguishing agent.
For example, some hotel equipped with fire extinguishers are all BC powder, and from the fire occurred in the case of a comprehensive research on the hotel fire is burning of flammable solids, at this moment if the fire extinguisher with BC powder, the effect is not significant, even may delay the timing of fire, resulting in greater economic losses.

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