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by userbinator 234 days ago
To be of any use, it also has to suffocate a fire.
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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...