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A gas duster, also known as tinned wind, compressed air, or canned air, is a product used for cleaning or dusting electronic equipment and other sensitive devices that cannot be cleaned using water. This type of product is most often packaged as a can that, when a trigger is pressed, blasts a stream of compressed gas through a nozzle at the top.
Canned air / dusters do not contain air, and are dangerous, even deadly, to inhale. [24] Aerosol cans have three main areas of health concern: Contents may be deliberately inhaled to achieve intoxication from the propellant (known as inhalant abuse or "huffing"). Calling them "canned air" or "cans of compressed air" could mislead the ignorant ...
Lab demonstration with burning lycopodium powder. A dust explosion is the rapid combustion of fine particles suspended in the air within an enclosed location. Dust explosions can occur where any dispersed powdered combustible material is present in high-enough concentrations in the atmosphere or other oxidizing gaseous medium, such as pure oxygen.
Rescue workers are blaming a can of air freshener and a cigarette for the explosion that blew out a car's doors, windows and even its roof. Air freshener causes parked car to explode with ...
A company that makes air-bag inflators that have exploded in eight incidents involving two deaths and seven injuries argued Tuesday that it can't say for sure whether its inflators might cause ...
Everybody knows cigarettes are hazardous to their users' health, but causing an explosion is not typically one of the major immediate risks (unless smoking at a gas station!). In a terrifying ...
When the skin thaws, pain and severe discomfort can occur in the affected area. [7] There may be a smell of aerosol products such as deodorant around the affected area, the injury may itch or be painful, the skin may freeze and become hardened, blisters may form on the area, and the flesh can become red and swollen.
Displacement of air by the explosion creates a blast wind that can throw victims against solid objects. [3] Injuries resulting from this type of traumatic impact are referred to as tertiary blast injuries. Tertiary injuries may present as some combination of blunt and penetrating trauma, including bone fractures and coup contre-coup injuries ...