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 ...

Airbags deployed in low-speed accidents, which would not otherwise cause injury, can leave drivers with serious burns, new Australian research shows. Drivers are at risk from being burnt by hot ...