Blazing Magnesium Is Extinguished by New Powder

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Magnesium fires, cause of much of the damage in bombed cities overseas and a bugbear of American defense industries where magnesium alloys are fabricated, are the special business of a new extinguishing powder. Magnesium burns with a brilliant flash which is almost explosive in the presence of water. The new chemical powder, however, is said to quell the fire quickly.

Title (Dublin Core)
Blazing Magnesium Is Extinguished by New Powder
Subject (Dublin Core)
en
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
Blazing Magnesium Is Extinguished by New Powder
Language (Dublin Core)
Eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
World War II
Date Issued (Dublin Core)
1942-02
Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
Popular Mechanics, vol. 77, n. 2, 1942
pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
12
Rights (Dublin Core)
Public domain
Source (Dublin Core)
Google books
References (Dublin Core)
United States of America
Archived by (Dublin Core)
Enrico Saonara