Designed or treated to resist, prevent, or extinguish fire; fireproof or fire-retardant.
From anti- + fire. Developed as commercial terminology in the 19th-20th centuries with development of fire-resistant materials and coatings.
Antifire treatments use clever chemistry—some materials swell up when heated to insulate what's underneath, while others release compounds that interrupt the chemical reaction that fire needs to burn.
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