Fighting Fire with Sound?

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June 15, 2016
What’s New, Future Trends
By Daniel Meyers

Fire wears the dual hat of being both our friend and our enemy. Necessary for advanced life, and equally potent to end it, it’s the latter point that has led to finding better and better methods for extinguishing it. Water, chemicals, even blankets…fire suppressants have taken many forms. And now, the practice of fighting fire with sound is showing incredible promise as an effective, fire-fighting tool.

Watch here how students at George Mason University demonstrate a fire-suppressing sound device to extinguish flames.

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