On impact, a chemical reaction produces gas ... has "significant advantages" over other methods for inflating airbags. "[I]t burns cleaner and emits significantly less particulate matter that ...

“You’ve got all these little hot particles” that can burn people, Worsey says. Airbag makers were also looking for a chemical reaction that gave off more gas per gram of material so they ...

Lye causes a very severe burn as it dissolves flesh ... powder that emerges from the deployed air bag is lye. Why the facts of chemistry and this chemical reaction are ignored or glossed over ...

Therefore, in the airbags retarding agents are mixed in with sodium azide to quench the potentially hazardous sodium. After all, no one wishes to be safe from a vehicle collision but get a chemical ...