All-natural mixture yields promising fire retardant
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 09:20
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) —What sounds like fixings for a wizard's potion—a dash of clay, a dab of fiber from crab shells, and a dollop of DNA—actually are the ingredients of promising green fire retardants invented by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).