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		userbinator 50 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 To be of any use, it also has to suffocate a fire.

oasisbob 50 days ago [–]

Halon doesn't work that way, by displacing oxygen.

Flame chemistry is weird. Halogenated fire suppression agents work by making Hydrogen (!) out of free radicals.

https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/el/fire_research...

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