- 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.
A heavily shielded enclosure in which radioactive material can be handled safely by persons working from outside the shield using remote tools and manipulators while viewing the work through special leaded-glass or liquid-filled windows or through optical devices.
Industry:Fire safety
A heliport located on fixed or mobile structures and vessels in a marine environment that do not have means of entry and egress connected directly to shore.
Industry:Fire safety
A heliport where no refueling, maintenance, repair, or storage of helicopters is permitted.
Industry:Fire safety
A helmet without the suspension system, accessories, and fittings.
Industry:Fire safety
A hermetically sealed battery, comprised of one or more rechargeable electrochemical cells, that has no provision for the release of excessive gas pressure, or for the addition of water or electrolyte, or for external measurements of electrolyte specific gravity.
Industry:Fire safety
A heterogeneous system comprised of not less than two phases, one of which is a continuous, polymeric, organic material, and the second of which is deliberately introduced for the purpose of distributing gas in voids throughout the material.
Industry:Fire safety
A heterogeneous system, consisting of at least one immiscible liquid dispersed in another in the form of droplets.
Industry:Fire safety
A high power rocket that is multistaged or propelled by two or more rocket motors.
Industry:Fire safety
A high-pressure container used in a hybrid rocket motor system to contain pressurized liquid or gas.
Industry:Fire safety
