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fire resistance

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-002511

The property of a material or assembly to withstand fire or give protection from it. As applied to elements of buildings, it is characterized by the ability to confine a fire or to continue to perform a given structural function, or both.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-002511
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
Synonymsfire tolerance
ReferencesForest Products Laboratory. 2010. Wood handbook - Wood as an engineering material. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-190. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsophysical properties; fire testing
TranslationsSpanish: resistencia al fuego
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-002511",
  "term": "fire resistance",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "The property of a material or assembly to withstand fire or give protection from it. As applied to elements of buildings, it is characterized by the ability to confine a fire or to continue to perform a given structural function, or both.",
  "synonyms": [
    "fire tolerance"
  ],
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "physical properties",
    "fire testing"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Forest Products Laboratory. 2010. Wood handbook - Wood as an engineering material. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-190. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "resistencia al fuego"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/fire-resistance/"
}

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