Word: halon
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...Pusey Library is also the world's first to be designed with a built-in, fully-automated, halon-gas fire-extinguishing system...
Activated by a special "Pyr-a-larm," halon gas pours out of sinister-looking outlets in the ceiling and puts out fires instantly...
...beauty of halon gas," Robert R. Walsh '65, assistant University librarian for building planning, said yesterday, is that it doesn't damage the books, as water would, and it doesn't suffocate people, like the carbon dioxide in Yale's Beinecke rare books library...
...Halon reacts with the molecular process of combustion and makes it absolutely impossible for that process to continue," Walsh explained...