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INTRODUCTION
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... law.2 3 4 In this study the Committee on Assessment of Fire Suppression Substitutes and Alternatives to Halon addresses various scientific and engineering aspects of the agents and methods that are being considered as substitutes for haloes and halon systems. The Navy currently has a considerable investment in halon systems, and it would be highly desirable to identify alternative agents that can be substituted for halon in existing hardware and pose no environmental threat.
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... Progress in the understanding of flames and their extinguishment has been quite encouraging, but it is still necessary to test extinguishing agents in fullscaTe conditions. Over the past decade, a systematic, broadly based search has been implemented for halon alternatives, covering many classes of compounds that are candidate alternatives or might shed light on chemical mechanisms involved.
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... 3. United Nations Environment Programme, Report on the Fourth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Nairobi, Kenya (1992~.
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