Extinction of The Fire
To stop a combustion reaction, one of the three elements of the fire-triangle has to be removed:
- Suppression of the Combustible: by closing of the valve fueling the combustion, creating sufficient distance between fire and flame, exhausting hot smoke (containing unburned elements), …
- Suppression of the Oxidizer by the use of a carbon dioxide fire-extinguisher, a blanket, or spraying sufficient water on a solid combustible (water vapor removes fresh air) …
- Suppression of the Activation Energy (cooling down): by spraying water in a mix of air + combustible particles), net absorbing the heat ("Davy" miner lamp), exhausting to remove hot smoke, …
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“War was return of earth to ugly earth,
War was foundering of sublimities,
Extinction of each happy art and faith
By which the world had still kept head in air.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
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—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
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—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 30:15.