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    A smoke detector is a device that senses smoke, typically as an indicator of fire. Smoke detectors/Alarms are usually housed in plastic enclosures, typically...
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    A smoke screen is smoke released to mask the movement or location of military units such as infantry, tanks, aircraft, or ships. Smoke screens are commonly...
    22 KB (2,746 words) - 06:56, 19 May 2024
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    smoking is the inhalation of tobacco smoke, called passive smoke, secondhand smoke (SHS) or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), by individuals other than the...
    134 KB (15,608 words) - 11:37, 26 May 2024
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    gun." We then both took aim at the main body of British troops the smoke preventing our seeing anything but the heads of some of their horses and discharged...
    122 KB (15,661 words) - 07:20, 18 April 2024
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    on the third day, the winds died down, as did the flames, but thick smoke prevented movement about the city, removal of bodies, and reconstruction for...
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  • operations and delay or prevent flashover, thereby reducing the risk that the fire will escalate. In the United Kingdom, the Smoke Control Association operates...
    2 KB (215 words) - 15:22, 4 April 2023
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    An aspirating smoke detector (ASD) is a system used in active fire protection, consisting of a central detection unit which draws air through a network...
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    Smoked salmon is a preparation of salmon, typically a fillet that has been cured and hot or cold smoked. Due to its moderately high price, smoked salmon...
    26 KB (3,270 words) - 07:53, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co
    Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company [1893] 1 QB 256 is an English contract law decision by the Court of Appeal, which held an advertisement containing...
    57 KB (9,331 words) - 02:50, 24 May 2024
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    The M18 Colored Smoke Grenade is a US Army grenade used as a ground-to-ground or ground-to-air signaling device, a target or landing zone marking device...
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    systems directed towards the exterior are effective to the point of preventing smoke from entering the non-smoking area, and that in the case of establishments...
    224 KB (23,463 words) - 12:14, 19 April 2024
  • Chimney (redirect from Smoke stack)
    made of masonry, clay or metal that isolates hot toxic exhaust gases or smoke produced by a boiler, stove, furnace, incinerator, or fireplace from human...
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    itself was extinguished around 1:38 p.m.; however, the toxicity of the smoke prevented them from entering the station for another three and a half hours....
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    their settlements. Effects include for example the direct health impacts of smoke and fire, as well as destruction of property (especially in wildland–urban...
    191 KB (19,684 words) - 19:35, 30 May 2024
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    Incense (redirect from Incense smoke)
    dictionary. Incense is an aromatic biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt. The term is used for either the material or the aroma. Incense...
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    the fires. Smoke emitted from the wildfires caused air quality alerts and evacuations in Canada and the United States. In late June, the smoke crossed the...
    179 KB (13,929 words) - 03:18, 26 May 2024
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    Smoked beer (German: Rauchbier) is a type of beer with a distinctive smoke flavour imparted by using malted barley dried over an open flame. Drying malt...
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  • installed in physical smoke barriers (e.g., walls). Smoke damper may be used to prevent the spread of smoke from the space of fire origin to other spaces in...
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    Smoko (redirect from Smoke-o)
    Australian, New Zealand and Falkland Islands English, a smoko (also "smoke-o" or "smoke-oh") is a short, often informal break taken during work or military...
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    A smoke hood, also called an Air-Purifying Respiratory Protective Smoke Escape Device (RPED), is a hood wherein a transparent airtight bag seals around...
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