In order for a fire to sustain itself, it needs three things: fuel, heat, and oxygen, with the disruption of just one of those causing the fire to extinguish. Water, sand, and carbon dioxide-based … ...

Work by Seth Robertson and Viet Tran shows that you can use sound waves to put out flames. The George Mason University engineering students rigged up a sonic fire extinguisher that lets out ...

A new type of extinguisher that uses sound waves to put out fires has been built by two engineering students in the US. Both chemical- and water-free, the invention offers a relatively non-destructive ...

Sound waves with angular momentum will probably be used in a similar way. Physical Review Letters, 2022, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.064301 ( About DOIs ) Listing image: Wikipedia ...

Sound waves could be the next big thing in fire-fighting technology. George Mason University engineering students Seth Robertson and Viet Tran have built a new kind of fire extinguisher that uses ...

A pair of engineering students created a new type of fire extinguisher that uses sound waves to put out flames. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with ...