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flashover [′flash‚ō·vər] (electricity) An electric discharge around or over the surface of an insulator. (engineering) A condition occurring during a fire in a building in which the surfaces of everything within a compartment or room seem to burst into flame simultaneously. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| This, in turn, deteriorates the insulation, and that can cause flashovers and short circuits. Spontaneous flashovers occur, nearly always causing a catastrophic result," he noted. In the 1970s, Dow Coming developed a room-temperature curing elastomer, designed for spray application to porcelain insulators to reduce insulator maintenance and resist flashovers, particularly in salt fog environments. |
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