Environment Protection Fire Retardant: Magnesium Hydroxide
ZHOU Guangying1, WU Huijun2
1. College of Chemistry and Environmental Science of South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631; 2. Institute of Chemical Engineering of South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640
Abstract The classification and development tendency of fire retardants are introduced, mainly deaing with the fire retarding mechanism, characteristics, application and development of magnesium hydroxide as a fire retardant. It is shown that magnesium hydroxide is a new type of inorganic fire retardant which is friendly to environment.
