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Table salt form. The sodium chloride needs to be in the finest form so that it can flow freely from a stored pressure extinguisher bottle, siphon tube, hose and applicator. The extinguishers have a special very low velocity applicator to ensure the sodium chloride is applied efficiently and...

Hi Sean Yes, soda ash (sodium carbonate, Na2CO3) Class D agent is used in areas where stainless steel piping and equipment could be damaged by sodium chloride. It is used to control fires involving sodium, potassium, and sodium-potassium alloys, but it has very little use with other combustible...

It is very misleading and dangerous to say that “a dry-chemical fire extinguisher must be used instead” on Class D combustible metal fires. The writer has confused dry chemical with dry powder extinguishers. They are NOT the same! Dry chemical extinguishers contain sodium bicarbonate, potassium...