Materials Applications for Non-Lethal: Aqueous Foams
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High expansion aqueous foam is an aggregation of bubbles that has the appearance of soap suds and is used to isolate individuals both visually and acoustically. It was developed in the 1920's in England to fight coal mine fires and has been widely used since for fire fighting and dust suppression. It was developed at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) in the 1970's for nuclear safeguards and security applications. In the mid-1990s, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the research arm of th…
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Date:
September 15, 1999
Creator:
GOOLSBY,TOMMY D. & SCOTT,STEVEN H.
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