DOT Flashcards
Any act that would remove or neutralize a fire hazard.
Abatement
Any person who acts as agent of the owner and manages the use of a building for him.
Administrator
Any material or mixture consisting of a fuel and oxidizer used to set off explosives.
Blasting Agent
A highly combustible and explosive compound produced by the reaction of nitric acid with a cellulose material.
Cellulose Nitrate or Nitro Cellulose
Any plastic substance, materials or compound having cellulose nitrate (nitro cellulose) as base.
Cellulose Nitrate Plastic (Pyroxylin)
Any readily ignitable and free burning fiber such as cotton, oakum, rags, waste cloth, waste paper, kapok, hay, straw, Spanish moss, excelsior and other similar materials commonly used in commerce.
Combustible Fiber
Descriptive of materials that are easily set on fire.
Combustible, Flammable or Inflammable
Any liquid having a flash point at or above 37.8˚C (100˚F).
Combustible Liquid
Any liquid which causes fire when in contact with organic matter or with certain chemicals.
Corrosive Liquid
The process of first raising the temperature in separate the more volatile from the less volatile parts and then cooling and condensing the resulting vapor so as to produce a nearly purified substance.
Distillation
A finely powdered substance which, when mixed with air in the proper proportion and ignited will cause an explosion
Dust
A normally open device installed inside an air duct system which automatically closes to restrict the passage of smoke or fire.
Damper
A continuous passageway for the transmission of air.
Duct System
Materials used as final coating of a surface for ornamental or protective purposes.
Finishes
An extremely hot luminous bridge formed by passage of an electric current across a space between two conductors or terminals due to the incandescence of the conducting vapor.
Electrical Arc
The active principle of burning, characterized by the heat and light of combustion.
Fire
A hot piece or lump that remains after a material has partially burned, and is still oxidizing without the manifestation of flames.
Ember
A building unsafe in case of fire because it will burn easily or because it lacks adequate exits or fire escapes.
Fire Trap
Any visual or audible signal produced by a device or system to warm the occupants of the building or fire fighting elements of the presence or danger of fire to enable them to undertake immediate action to save life and property and to suppress the fire
Fire Alarm
Refers to design and installation of walls, barriers, doors, windows, vents, means of egress, etc. integral to and incorporated into a building or structure in order to minimize danger to life from fire, smoke, fumes or panic before the building is evacuated. These features are also designed to achieve, among others, safe and rapid evacuation of people through means of egress sealed from smoke or fire, the confinement of fire or smoke in the room or floor of origin and delay their spread to other parts of the building by means of smoke sealed and fire resistant doors, walls and floors.
Fire Safety Constructions
It shall also mean to include the treatment of buildings components or contents with flame retardant chemicals.
Fire Safety Constructions
A process where a piece of metal is heated prior to changing its shape or dimensions.
Forcing
The minimum temperature at which any material gives off vapor in sufficient concentration to form an ignitable mixture with air.
Flash Point
A kind of stable explosive compound which explodes by percussion.
Fulminate
Any act of manufacturing, fabrication, conversion, etc., that uses or produces materials which are likely to cause fires or explosions.
Hazardous Operation/Process
The use of one or more electrical appliances or devices which draw or consume electrical current beyond the designed capacity of the existing electrical system.
Overloading
A piece of metal or an electrical conductor used to bypass a safety device in an electrical system.
Jumper
Passageway from one building to another or through or around a wall in approximately the same floor level.
Horizontal Exit
A material that readily yields oxygen in quantities sufficient to stimulate or support combustion.
Oxidizing Material
The person who holds the legal right of possession or title to a building or real property.
Owner
Any street, alley or other strip of land unobstructed from the ground to the sky, deeded, dedicated or otherwise permanently appropriated for public use.
Public Way
A process where impurities and/or deleterious materials are removed from a mixture in order to produce a pure element of compound.
Refining
It shall also refer to partial distillation and electrolysis.
Refining
Automatic closing doors that are designed to confine smoke and heat and delay the spread of fire.
Self-Closing Doors
Melting or fusing of metallic ores or compounds so as to separate impurities from pure metals.
Smelting
An integrated network of hydraulically designed piping installed in a building, structure or area with outlets arranged in a systematic pattern which automatically discharges water when activated by heat or combustion products from a fire.
Sprinkler System
A system of vertical pipes in a building to which fire hoses can be attached on each floor, including a system by which water is made available to the outlets as needed.
Standpipe System
