The definitive reference for explosion protection terminology across 19 languages. Built from IEC 60079 standards, national standards body publications, and ATEX directive translations. for engineers writing multilingual documentation, translators working on Ex certificates, and certification bodies reviewing international submissions.
The ExKnowledge glossary collects 77 core explosion-protection terms — the vocabulary you meet on certificates, nameplates, standards, and in hazardous-area engineering — and shows each term in 19 languages: English, Norwegian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Polish, Czech, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Arabic. It is drawn from the IEC 60079 series (60079-0, 60079-10-1, 60079-10-2, 60079-14, 60079-17) and the ATEX Directive 2014/34/EU, cross-checked against the published translations issued by national standards bodies.
Every entry is traceable to the normative text in IEC 60079 or the ATEX Directive. Where a term has both a "preferred" and a "deprecated" form in national use (for example explosion-proof vs flameproof), the glossary follows the IEC preferred term. Abbreviations (LEL, UEL, MESG, MIC, EPL, AEx) are kept in their original Latin form where that is the convention in the target language, even in Arabic, Japanese, and Chinese entries, because that reflects how they actually appear on certificates.