SODIUM CHLORATE
INFLAMMABLE PROPERTIES ITS DANGERS DEMONSTRATED, (Per United Press Association.) HAMILTON, March 7. The terrible dangers to persons and property consequent upon the inflammability of sodium chlorate which is used as a weed exterminator were strikingly illustrated by Deputy Superintendent Irvine, of Hamilton, in a demonstration at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Fire Brigades Officers and Mem* hers' Institute to-day. In a series of demonstrations Deputy Superintendent Irvine illustrated the highly inflammable nature of clotbipg or wood which had became saturated with sodium chlorate. In each instance, when a light was placed near the impregnated fabric, the moisture in which had been allowed to dry out, it burst into fierce flames with almost explosive violence. Deputy Superintendent Irvine also showed bow when sodium silicate was mixed with the chlorate the result was to reduce greatly the inflammability, and the material burnt only with difficulty. He suggested that this mixture should be investigated by the Department of Agriculture as a means of overcoming the hazards of the chlorate. Mr It. Girling Butcher, chief inspector of lire brigades, stressed the heed for preventing a risk which was not restricted to individuals, but was also a danger, to the buildings in which the chemical was stored.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22206, 8 March 1934, Page 6
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