- Author
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Naba, H.
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Morikawa, T.
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Kobayashi, T.
- Title
- Toxicity Evaluation of Gases From Burning Red Phosphorus Fire: Retarded Plastics in Tube Furnace.
- Journal
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Report of Fire Research Institute of Japan,
No. 80,
30-35,
September 1995
- Keywords
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phosphorus
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plastics
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toxicity
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furnaces
- Abstract
- ONLY ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH There is a fear that phosphine could be produced from the combustion of red phosphorus fire-retarded materials. In this study, various red phosphorus fire-retarded plastics were burned in a horizontal quartz tube furnace to evaluate the toxicity of phosphine in comparison with that of other toxic fire effluents such as carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide. Nylon, ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, polyvinyl chloride and low density polyethylene were used for experiments as fire-retarded plastics. Within the range of the present experiments, the toxicity of phosphine was estimated to be only one tenth of that of carbon monoxide or hydrogen cyanide at the most.