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Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by mrgoldenbrown on Monday October 20, 2025 @06:30PM (#45650251)
Halon was used back in the day for fire suppression but I thought it was only dangerous at high enough concentrations to suffocate you by displacing oxygen.
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Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by userbinator on Monday October 20, 2025 @11:43PM (#45652250)
To be of any use, it also has to suffocate a fire.
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Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by oasisbob on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @12:17AM (#45652433)
Halon doesn't work that way, by displacing oxygen.

Flame chemistry is weird. Halogenated fire suppression agents work by making Hydrogen (!) out of free radicals.

https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/el/fire_research...

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