self-extinguishing

State legislatures across the country have been considering laws that require cigarettes to be self-extinguishing.

Flammable materials in the cabin were replaced with self-extinguishing versions.

An Indiana inventor won patent approval this week for a machine to make self-extinguishing cigarettes.

Polyester is self-extinguishing, though it can melt and produce burns when heated by an open flame.

Under the measure, cigarettes would have to be self-extinguishing within a certain time after a smoker stops puffing on the cigarette.

The walls are self-extinguishing in case of a fire, and resist an attack with nine-millimeter ammunition virtually unscathed.

Naturally, other safety details have also been carefully worked out, not least fire safety, with the use of non-inflammable and self-extinguishing materials.

The site workers' cabin enjoyed double glazing and self-extinguishing lights to reduce CO emissions from the construction work.

Other key benefits include excellent resistance to aging and ozone, very low gas permeability and the fact that the materials are self-extinguishing.

In a patent file for a self-extinguishing cigarette, the inventor thanked Jaffee for providing the inspiration.

Polycarbonates are transparent, self-extinguishing materials.

G-10, the predecessor to FR-4, lacks FR-4's self-extinguishing flammability characteristics.

The objective is to reduce burning temperature and therefore flammability, but not to produce a self-extinguishing cigarette (easily achieved by omitting additives).

Legislation should be directed toward a mandatory self-extinguishing cigarette, an easily achievable goal with a more tangible effect than a cooler-burning cigarette.

This deadly hazard can be significantly reduced if cigarettes are designed to be self-extinguishing after a smoker stops puffing on the cigarette.

More heat-tolerant self-extinguishing acetate-based materials (marketed as Cinemoid and Roscolene) were developed to deal with higher output light sources.

Ms. Griesenbeck sued the American Tobacco Company, arguing that the company should have produced a self-extinguishing cigarette.

Joyce is not as self-extinguishing as Rimbaud, but he is a warning not to falsify the costs of artistry or its inexpressible value.

High partial pressures of oxygen greatly increase fire hazard, and many materials which are self-extinguishing in atmospheric air will burn continuously in a high oxygen concentration.

Using radical initiations or UV irradiation, polyaddition of phenylphosphine to 1,4-divinylbenzene or 1,4-diisopropenylbenzene will form phosphorus-containing polymers, which have self-extinguishing properties.

Several brands of self-extinguishing cigarettes are already on the market, including More, Merit, Virginia Slims, Capri Light and Eve Lights.

After he returned to California in 1975, and established the Burn Council, he initiated an international campaign for self-extinguishing cigarettes (also known as Fire Safe Cigarettes).

The Japanese matchlock, or 'tanegashima' was based on an unknown model of Portuguese snapping matchlock, but was refined so that the difficulties with self-extinguishing matches were almost eliminated.

Self-extinguishing tones (e.g., play a trumpet closely or at varying distances against a wall that is either bare or hung with a variety of surface materials, in order to achieve extinctions).

Hoping to defuse the conflict, a state legislator recently introduced a bill that would allow balloon-makers to register and send up balloons that have been certified "self-extinguishing" and therefore not likely to cause fires.