There are flame-retardant aramid fibers, which the company has begun making for mattresses, and puncture-resistant Kevlar for tires.
Windows Phone 8 phones are Flame Red, Limelight Yellow and California Blue.
Other studies that are part of the same project are looking for flame retardants and pesticides, for example.
More and more, studies are calling out the serious health risks of the flame retardant chemicals that are almost always present in our sofas, upholstery, rugs, and even electronics.
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" Executives at the time touted that while the product "might look small ... they are full of the big, flame-broiled taste.
Flame retardants, which are found in textiles, computer casings, sofa foam and other household items, have been shown to interfere with thyroid hormone, essential for healthy brain development.
Weinberger and Rumsfeld are previous "Keeper of the Flame" recipients.
This partly explains why food bought from local producers either directly or at farmers' markets is growing in popularity, and why local-food advocates are now the keepers of the flame of the food-activism movement.
Attacks like Stuxnet, Flame, Gauss and Shamoon are becoming commonplace and keep growing in sophistication.
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The malware the French authorities are said to have discovered is called Flame.
First, electronic waste is currently hazardous waste in that it contains lead, mercury, cadmium, brominated flame retardants etc, which are integrally mixed into components and cannot therefore be easily separated from the non-hazardous components.
In the kind of pivot that often marks his approach, he goes from asking why some star college quarterbacks are successful in the NFL and others flame out to the question of why some people make great teachers and others fail miserably.
We are more likely to think twice before we flame in our own name.
Our forefathers who first brought that flame to light at Lexington and Concord are looking down upon us right now.
They are the ornamentation motifs of flower, vine, flame, lotus petals, bamboo-shoot or water-buffalo teeth, used to decorate objects and architectural elements throughout Cambodia, and people have long drawn these motifs from the environment and social life - from the Angkorian period to today.
There are, bizarrely, no federal guidelines for routine safety testing of flame retardant chemicals.
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Instead of coffins, there are 1930s-vintage cardboard and wooden suitcases, each with a flame flickering in a red glass.
There are songs about subjects as seemingly innocuous as summer peaches ("July Flame"), as well as a tribute to legendary studio musician Carol Kaye.
Though many issues remain unresolved, and the emotions from decades of conflict are still raw for many, power-sharing has so far proved flame-proof against all challenges.
And he insisted the "flame" of progress no longer burned for Labour, and that the Lib Dems are the only party capable of rebuilding the country.
Public health advocates maintain that the health risks from exposure to chemical flame retardants is higher than that of fire, and point out that the chemicals are often used on products that pose little fire risk.
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