Chemical mechanism of fire retardance of boric acid on wood

By Qingwen Wang, Jian Li, J. Winandy. Wood Science and Technology, 2004

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Effect of boric acid and borax on mechanical, fire and thermal properties of wood flour filled high density polyethylene composites (2015, background): “It is known that boric acid and borax promote charring due to having catalytic effect on wood/wood composites [35], also BbFRs are forming a protective layer on the treated/impregnated sample surface in combustion [36].”
Flammability behaviour of wood and a review of the methods for its reduction (2013, unknown): “Many other researchers have investigated the effectiveness of the mixture (Gao et al. 2006; Wang et al. 2004), where recognition of decreased carbon monoxide/carbon dioxide levels has been made.”
Smouldering Combustion Phenomena in Science and Technology (2009, background): “It has often been experimentally observed that materials with good resistance to flaming ignition have poor resistance to smouldering ignition and vice versa [48, 49, 50 , 47, 17].”