Talk:Flame retardant

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On the other hand, this materials can be produced out of melamine and dipentaerythriol. Herein melamine functions as a blowing agent that forms barrier to flame.

The mechanism of fire retardancy is simply inhibition of oxygen with radical formation of these organic materials, the element which burns materials. However inorganic materials behaves as capturing agents for oxygens molecules.

I know little of chemistry, but this sounds like balderdash. I came across this while looking through the User Contributions page for 212.98.201.1, from which address I've seen a fair bit of vandalism. It's possible that this is just some rubbish (I mean, "radical formation of these inorganic materials"? What the heck is that supposed to mean?) inserted by a vandal, or it may be from somebody with a weak grasp of English. If this is valid information, it's still incomprehensible. Either way, I'm cutting it. Mr. Billion 18:44, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merge suggested

I would suggest to merge the articles flame retardant and fire retardant as these terms are very similar. --Lucido 13:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Flame resistant redirects to flame retardant, which may make sense from a chemistry point of view, but not so much from a functional point of view. (In general usage, flame retardant treatments make things flame resistant. Clothing, for instance, is marketed as "fire resistant", not "flame retardant".)

In my opinion, flame resistance deserves a page of its own discussing the functional uses of flame-resistant products and the applicable National Fire Protection Association and ANSI standards in the U.S. and related standards elsewhere in the world.

Jmozena 16:18, 2 March 2007 (UTC) [[Yes I think merging is a good idea. I wasted a lot of time looking for fire retardants etc. User: Jag

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