intumescent

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An intumescent coating on steel girders and beams “can delay the loss in strength for many more hours” during a fire, he says.

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2023

This can take the form of intumescent paint, which swells when exposed to heat, or other insulating materials such as gypsum or concrete cladding.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2015

The rough coating is a fireproofing substance known as intumescent epoxy.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2014

I do not advise trephining in the secondary glaucoma following intumescent cataract, for in such cases the semi-fluid lens bulges into and blocks the trephine hole.

From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Nance, Willis O.

Had Cleveland done naught else evil he would have damned himself everlastingly by pulling this intumescent jay out of a Nebraska turnip- patch to make him a cabinet clerk.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper