Flame Resistant facts
While investigating facts about Flame Resistant, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Samurai wore clothes dyed with indigo because it makes them antibacterial, flame resistant up to 1500 degrees Fahrenheit, and repels odor and dirt.
Rubbing pencil graphite on the top strap of a revolver, just above the cylinder gap, will reduce what is called "flame cutting" (where the hot gasses from the round scorches the metal and wears it down) due to graphite's natural heat resistance.
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Wood, more specifically mass timber, is actually more flame resistant than steel or concrete.
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In the Warsaw Uprising in WW2, Polish resistance fighters turned a Chevrolet chassis into an armoured car armed with a flame-thrower and a machine gun, and named Kubuś – the Polish translation of "Winnie the Pooh".
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Treating cotton wool with DNA made it more flame-resistant.
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Children's sleepwear is specifically regulated to be "flame resistant and self-extinguish if a flame from a candle, match, or lighter...causes it to catch fire."
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The link between Japanese Samurai and real Indigo - and natural Indigo is said to be antibacterial and flame resistant
