Description
Hazardous Materials Chemistry for Emergency Responders (3rd Ed.)
Author: Burke Robert
Language: EnglishSubjects for Hazardous Materials Chemistry for Emergency Responders:
Keywords
Identification Number; Vapor Density; street chemistry; Molecular Formula; NFPA 472 Chemistry requirements; Dot Hazard Class; hazmat elements of chemical families; Dangerous Fire Risk; chemical terminology; Flammable Range; physical and chemical characteristics; Flammable Liquids; emergency responders; Wide Flammable Range; Diesel Fuel; Ammonium Nitrate; Hazard Class; Case Registry Number; Hydrocarbon Derivatives; Tank Car; Alkyl Halides; Periodic Table Group; Binary Salt; Miscellaneous Hazardous Materials; Ordinary Physical State; Riot Control Agents; Metal Atomic Number; Ignition Temperature; Mustard Agents; Cryogenic Liquid; Nitro Functional Groups
Publication date: 06-2013
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 04-2017
· 17.4x24.6 cm · Paperback
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The third edition of a bestseller, Hazardous Materials Chemistry for Emergency Responders continues to provide the fundamentals of "street chemistry" required by emergency response personnel. Emergency response and hazmat expert Robert Burke takes the basics of chemistry appropriate for response personnel and puts it into understandable terms. The author has retained the style and format that made the previous editions so popular while updating the information to keep the book relevant.
See What?s in the Third Edition:
- Expanded section on Ethanol and its hazards to responders
- Update of NFPA 472 Chemistry requirements
- Revised section on "hazmat elements" with more hazards and response issues
- Includes a focus on the importance of the "hazmat elements" of chemical families
- New incident examples
- New photographs and graphics
The chapters are organized by the nine U.S. Department of Transportation's hazard classes. Almost every hazardous material presents more than one hazard; the DOT?s placarding and labeling system only identifies the most severe hazards. Therefore, the book provides additional information about hidden hazards for each hazard class. It discusses individual chemicals, their hazards and their physical and chemical characteristics, both as distinct chemicals and within chemical families.
The book offers a concise presentation of the topics of most importance to emergency responders on a day-to-day basis. It provides the basic chemistry a responder needs to understand chemical terminology and communicate with others about the chemicals involved in hazardous materials incidents.
Introduction. Basics of Chemistry. Explosives. Compressed Gases. Flammable Liquids. Flammable Solids. Oxidizers. Poisons. Radioactive Materials. Corrosive. Miscellaneous Hazardous Materials. Incompatible and Unstable Chemicals.
Robert A Burke is a Fire Marshal Hazardous Materials Technician at the University of Maryland.
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