HazMat Flashcards
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13 Lighter Than Air Gases
4H MEDIC ANNA
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- Hydrogen
- Hydrogen Cyanide
- Helium
- Hydrogen Flouride
- Methane
- Ethylene
- Diborane
- Illuminating Gases
- Carbon Monoxide
- Acetylene
- Neon
- Nitrogen
- Ammonia
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Elevated Temp Materials
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- Liquid phase at a temp at or above 212oF
- Liquid phase with a flash point at or above 100oF that is intentionally heated and offered for transportation or transported at or above its flash point
- Solid phase at a temp at or above 464oF
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ERG (Emergency Response Guide)
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- ERG ID # Index (Yellow Pages)
- ERG Material Name Index (Blue Pages)
- ERG Initial Action Guides (Orange Pages)
- 3 Main Sections
- Potential Hazards
- Public Safety
- Emergency Response
- 3 Main Sections
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Release
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- Detonation - Instantaneous and explosive release of stored chemical energy of material. Results include framentation, disintegration, or shattering of the container; Duration: hundreds or thousands of a second
- Violent Rupture - Immediate release caused by runaway cracks. Ballistic behavior of container and contents. Occurs in 1 sec or less
- Rapid Relief - Fast release of pressurized haz material through properly operating safety devices caused by damaged valves. Several seconds to several minutes
- Spill/Leak - Slow release of material under atmospheric or head pressure thru holes, rips, tears or usual openings. Several minutes to several days
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Dispersion Patterns/Engulfment
- Physical/chemical properties
- Prevailing weather conditions
- Local topography
- Duration of the release
- Control efforts of responders
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- Hemispheric - Semicircular or dome-shaped
- Cloud - Ball-shaped
- Plume - Irregularly shaped
- Cone - Triangular
- Stream - Surface-following affected by gravity
- Pool - Three-dimensional
- Irregular
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Awareness Level Personnel
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- Recognize the presence or potential presence of a hazardous material
- Recognize the type of container at a site and indentify the material in it if possible
- Transmit info to an appropriate authority and call for appropriate assistance
- Establish scene control by isolating area and denying entry
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Operations-Level Responders
Operations-Level Responders
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- Indentify material
- Analyze an incident to determine the nature and extent of the problem
- Protect themselves, nearby persons, the environment and property
- Develop defensive plan of action (plan a response)
- Implement the planned response to mitigate or control a release from safe distance
- Evaluate progress of the actions
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NFPA 704 diamond
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- 12 O’clock: Red; Flammability
- 3 O’clock: Yellow; Instability
- 9 O’clock: Blue; Health hazard
- 6 O’clock: No specified color; White most common; Reactivity w/ water; oxidizer0
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Department of Energy (DOE)
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- Manages the national nuclear research and defense programs
- Including storage of high-level nuclear waste
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Department of Homeland Security
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- Prevent terrorist attacks within the US
- Reduce America’s vulnerability to terrorism
- Minimize the damage from potential attacks and natural disasters
- FEMA and US Coast Guard
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Consumer Product Safety Commission
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- Oversees and enforces compliance with the Federal Hazardous Substances Act, which requires that certain hazardous household products carry labeling for hazards
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Dept of Defense Explosives Safety Board
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- Provides oversight of the develpment, manufacture, testing, maintenence, demilitarization, handling, transport and storage of explosives, including chemical agents on DOD facilities worldwide
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ATF and Department of Treasury
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- Enforces laws relating to alcohol, tobacco, firearms, explosives and arson
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Dept of Justice
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- Assigns primary responsibility for response to threats or acts of terrorism within US territory to the FBI
- FBI is lead agency on terrorist incident scenes
- FBI duties:
- Investigate the theft of hazardous materials
- Collects evidence
- Prosecutes criminal violations
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Corrosives
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- Destroy or burn living tissue and have bad effects by virtue of thier corrosivity
- With exception of liquid and gas fuels, corrosives comprise the largest usage class (by volume) in industry
- Divided into 2 broad categories
- Acids
- Bases (alkalis or caustics)
- Hydrogen Peroxide is neither
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Acid
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- Any chemical that ionizes (breaks down) to yield hydrogen ions in water
- pH values 0-6.9
- May cause severe chemical burns to flesh and eye damage
- Contact causes immediate pain
- Examples: Hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, sulfuric acid
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Base (alkalis)
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- Water soluble compound that breaks apart in water to form a negatively charged hydroxide ion
- pH values of 8-14
- Breaks down fatty skin tissues and penetrate deeply into the body
- Can cause severy eye damage from adhering to eye tissues (More than acid)
- Does not normally cause immediate pain
- Common sign - greasy or slick feeling of skin
- Examples: Caustic soda, potassium hydroxide and other alkaline materials commonly used in drain cleaners
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Aboveground Nonpressure tanks (aka atmospheric tanks)
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- Up to 0.5 psi inside
- Common types:
- horizontal
- ordinary cone roof
- floating roof
- lifter roof
- vapordome roof
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Aboveground Pressure storage tanks
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- Low-pressure: 0.5-15 psi
- Pressure vessels: 15+ psi
- Examples:
- Dome roof
- Spheroid tank
- Noded spheroid
- Horizontal pressure vessel
- Spherical pressure vessel
- Cryogenic-Liquid storage tank
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Bulk Transportation Containers
3 Main Categories
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- Tank cars (railroad)
- Cargo tank trucks (highway)
- Intermodal containers (highway, railroad, or marine vessel)
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Railroad cars
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- Low-pressure or general service tank cars (nonpressure)
- transport haz and nonhaz w/ vapor pressures <25 psi at 105o - 115oF
- 4,000-45,000 gallons
- cylindrical w/ rounded ends (heads)
- Pressure tank cars
- flammable, non-flammable, poisonous gases
- >25psi at 68oF
- Cryogenic liquid tank cars
- tank-within-a-tank
- insulation and vacuum protects contents for 30 days
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Other railroad cars
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- Covered hopper cars
- dry bulk; grain, calcium carbide, ammonium nitrate, cement
- Uncovered hopper cars
- Coal, sand, gravel, rocks
- Pneumatically unloaded hopper cars
- unloaded by air pressure
- 20 - 80 psi
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IM 102 intermodal tanks
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- 14.5 - 25.4psi
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IM 101 intermodel tanks
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- 25.4 - 100 psi
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Pressure intermodal tanks
* 100-500 psi
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Nonintervention reasons
* Pre-incident eval calls for it
* Beyond capabilites
* Explosions imminent
* Container damage threatens massive release
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Nonintervention actions
* Withdraw to safe distance
* Report scene conditions to telecommunications center
* Inititiate an incident mgmt system
* Call for additional resources
* Isolate the hazard area and deny entry
* Commence evacuation
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Defensive operations reasons
1. Pre-incident eval calls for it
2. Responders have training and equip necessary to confine the incident to the area of origin
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Defensive operations actions
* Report scene conditions
* Iniitiate incident mgmt system
* Call for additional resources
* Isolate hazard area and deny entry
* Establish and indicate zone boundaries
* Commence evac where needed
* Control ignition sources
* Use appropriate defensive control tactics
* Protect exposures
* Perform rescues when safe and appropriate
* Evaluate and report incident progress
* Perform emergency decon procedures
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Defensive spill-control tactics
* Absorption
* Adsorption
* Blanketing/Covering
* Dam, dike, diversion, retention
* Vapor suppression
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Tactics for reducing harm of material or diluting concentration
* Vapor dispersion
* Ventilation
* Dispersion
* Dilution
* Dissolution
* Neutralization
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Physical methods of decon
* Remove the contaminant from a contaminated person without changing the material chemically
* Examples:
* Absorption
* Adsorption
* Brushing and scraping
* Dilution
* Evaporation
* Isolation and disposal
* Washing
* Vacuuming
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Chemical methods for decon
* Chemical degradation
* Sanitization
* Disinfection
* Sterilization
* Neutralization
* Solidification
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High explosives
* Detonate
* Detonation velocities 3,300 feet per seconde to 29, 900 fps
* Faster than speed of sound
* Plastic explosives
* Nitroglycerin
* TNT
* Blasting caps
* Dynamite
* Ammonium nitrate and fuel oil
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Low explosives
* Deflegrate (burn rapidly; black powder)
* Confined in small spaces are used as propellants (bullets and fireworks)
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Primary explosives
* Easily initiated; highly sensitive to heat
* Used as detonators
* Lead azide
* Mercury fulminate
* Lead styphnate
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Secondary explosives
* Detonate only under specific circumstances
* Usually by activation energy from primary
* Less sensitive to initiating stimuli like heat and flame
* TNT
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Liquified gas
* Propane or carbon dioxide
* Partially liquid at 70oF
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Cryogen
* Refrigerated liquified gas
* Gas that turns into a liquid at or below -130oF
* Liquid oxygen
* Nitrogen
* Helium
* Hydrogen
* Argon
* LNG (Liquified natural gas)
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Biological hazards
* Viruses
* Simplest types of microorganisms that can only replicate themselves in the living cells of their hosts
* Do not respond to antibiotics
* Bacteria
* Microscopic, single celled organisms
* Most do not cause diseases
* Rickettsias
* Specialized bacteria that live and multiply in the gastrointest tract of carriers (fleas and ticks)
* Smaller than bacteria; larger than virus
* Spread through bite and not human contact
* Biological toxins
* Produced by living organisms
* Organism is not harmful to people
* Some made synthetically and genetically altered in labs
* Botulinum and Ricin
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Containers for radioactive materials
* Excepted - Very limited; no risk
* Industrial - Limited hazard; not identified
* Slightly contaminated clothing
* Lab samples
* Smoke detectors
* Type A - Maintain sufficient shielding under normal transportation conditions
* Type B - Normal shipping and sever accident conditions;
* Type C - Very rare packages for high-activity materials (plutonium) transported by aircraft
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UN Hazard Classes
EGFFOTRCM
1. Explosives
2. Gases
3. Flammable liquids
4. Flammable solids; spontaneous combustion; emit flammable gases on contact with water
5. Oxidizing substances and organic peroxides
6. Toxic and infectious
7. Radioactive materials
8. Corrosive
9. Miscellaneous dangerous
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Emergency Response Guidebook
* Primarily a guide to aid emergency responders in quickly identifying the specific or generic hazards of materials involved in an emergency incident and protecting themselves and general public during the initial phase
* Does not address all circumstances
* Primary used for highway and railroad
* Limited value at fixed-facility
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Degrees of Solubility
* Negligible - Less than 0.1%
* Slight - 0.1-1%
* Moderate - 1-10%
* Appreciable - 10-25%
* Completely - 25-100%
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Non-water soluble liquids
* Gasoline
* Diesel fuel
* Pentane
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Water-soluble liquids
* Alcohol
* Methanol
* Methyl ethyl ketone (MEK)
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Six sides of incident
* Alpha
* Bravo
* Charlie
* Delta
* Top
* Bottom
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Potassium chlorate
* White crystal or powder form explosive
* 83% of the power of TNT
* Common ingredient in fireworks
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Urea nitrate
* Fertilizer based explosive
* Nitric acid and urea
* Prill used for de-icing sidewalks is urea
* Often sulfuric acid is added
* Similiar to ammonium nitrate
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Peroxide based explosives
* Acetone peroxide
* Hexamethylene triperoxide diamine
* Mix hydrogen peroxide, acetone, and hydrochloric or sulfuric acid
* TATP is white crystalline powder; acrid smell
* TATP is yellowish to white
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Vehicle bombs
* Most devestating of IED's
* Easy to conceal
* Located in trunk
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Pipe bombs
* 4-14 inches
* Steel or plyvinyl chloride pipe sections filled with explosive and capped on ends
* Filled w/ black powder or match heads
* Filled with nails to throw shrapnel 300 ft
* May be detonated with homemade fuse
* Explosive filler can get into the threads of pipe and make sensitive to shock or friction
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Backpack bombs
* Electronic timers or radio controoled triggers so no external wires
* Even as small as cigarette pack
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Blister agents
* Burn and blister skin or any party of body they contact
* Act on eyes, mucous membranes, lungs, skin and blood-forming organs
* Damage resp. tract when inhaled
* Vomiting and diarrhea when ingested
* Usually persistant
* May be employed as a colorless gas and liquid
* Oily liquids range from colorless to pale yellow to dark brown
* Several days or weeks to evaporate
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Nerve agents
* Affect trasmission of impulses
* Most toxic of chemical warfare agents
* Stable, easily dispersed, highly toxic, and rapid effects when absorbed thru skin or respiratory system
* **Tabun**: low volatile; skin or inhaled
* **Sarin**: volatile; inhaled
* **Soman**: moderate; skin or inhaled
* **Cyclohexyl sarin**: low volatile; skin and inhaled
* **V-Agent**: low volatile; remains for long periods; skin and inhaled
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Blood agents
* Chemical asphyxiant
* Interferes w/ body's ability to use oxygen by preventing red blood cells from carrying oxygen or inhibiting cells to use oxygen for producing energy required for metabolism
* Arsine
* Hydrogen cyanide
* Cyanogen chloride
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Choking agents
* Chlorine -
* Used during WWI
* Turns into gas heavier than air
* Not flammable, but can react explosively or form explosive compounds w/ other chemicals
* Odor like bleach
* Phosgene -
* colorless, nonflammable
* odor like freshly cut hay
* accounted for majority of chemical fatalities in WWI
* Gas at room temp
* boiling point is 47oF
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Supplied-Air Respirators (SAR)
* Airline respirator
* Atmosphere suppying
* User does not carry air source
* Facepiece, belt or facefiece mounted regulator, voice comm, 300 ft of hose, emerg. escape pack
* Attached to air cylinders on cart or portable breathing-air compressor
* 5, 10, or 15 min worth of air to escape
* Type C respirator
* Adv: remove weight of SCBA
* Dis: Supply line damage; no more than 300 ft; hose entanglement
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Air-Purifying Respirators (APRs)
* 3 types
* Particulate removing APRs
* Vapor and gas removing APRs
* Combo
* Powered or nonpowered
* No oxygen supply
* Protect only against specific contaminants at or below certain concentrations
* Do not protect against all chemical hazards
* Do not protect agains oxygen enriched or deficient atmospheres
* Disadv:
* Limited life of filters and canisters
* Need for constant monitoring of contaminated atmosphere
* Need for normal oxgen content of atmosphere
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Particulate-Removing Filters
* 3 levels of filtration - 95, 99, 99.97%
* Filter degradation:
* N - Not resistant to oil
* R - Resistant to oil
* P - used when oil or nonoil lubricants are present
* Toxic dusts, mists, metal fumes, asbestos, some biological hazards
* HEPA filters for medicasl must be 99.97% efficient
* Particle masks (dust masks) protect from large size particles
* Very limited protection
* Not to be used chemical hazards or small particles such as asbestos
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Vapor and Gas Removing Filters
* Use sorbent material to remove targeted vapor from air
* Color-coded
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NFPA 704
* Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response
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Safety Data Sheets
1. ID
2. Hazard(s) id
3. Composition/info on ingredients
4. First aid measures
5. Firefighting measures
6. Accidental release measures
7. Handling and storage
8. Exposure controls/ personal protectoin
9. Physical and chemical properties
10. Stability and reactivity
11. Toxilogical info
12. Ecological info
13. Disposal considerations
14. Transport info
15. Regulatory info
16. Other info
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Vapor pressure
* Pressure exerted by a saturated vapor above its own liquid in a closed container
* High temp = high vapor pressure
* Vapor pressures reported on MSDS's are low
* Lower boiling point = Higher pressure
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3 incident-based elements that affect selection of strategic mode
* Value
* Time
* Size
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Simple asphyxiant vs Chemical asphyxiant
* Simple - Gases that displace oxygen necessary for breathing
* Chemical - Substances that prohibit the body from using oxygen. Even though oxygen is available, these substances starve the cells of the body for oxygen
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Routes of entry
* Inhalation
* Ingestion
* Absorption
* Injection
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Types of radiation
* Alpha - Not harmful outside the body. Very harmful if ingested or inhaled. Can be stopped by skin or sheet of paper
* Beta - More hazardous when inhaled or ingested. Travel up to 20 ft. Stopped by clothing or by less than .08 aluminum
* Gamma - X rays. Can pass thru body or be absorbed by tissue. 2 ft of concrete, several ft of earth or 2 inches of lead to stop
* Neutron - Highly penetrating. Soil moisture density gauges are source. Can cause secondary release of radiation when they interact with human body
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Fire point
* Temp at which a liquid fuel produces sufficient vapors to support continuous burning. A few degrees above flash point.
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Consist
* Rail shipping paper that contains a list of cars in the train by order
* Indicates cars that contain hazardous material
* Some include info on emerg ops
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Polar solvent
* Flammable liquids that have an attraction for water
* When combined with water, the 2 liquids mix easily
* Alcohol, Methanol, MEK
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SLUDGEM
Chemical warfare symptoms
* **S**alivation
* **L**achrimation (tearing)
* **U**rination
* **D**efecation
* **G**astrointestinal upset (cramping)
* **E**mesis (vomiting)
* **M**iosis (pinpointed pupils or Muscular twitching
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Hydrocarbon
* Non-water soluble liquid
* Gasoline, diesel fuel, pentane
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Alpha
* Rapidly lose energy when passing thru matter
* Emitted int the decay of the heaviest radioactive elements
* Uranium
* Radium
* Blocked by skin
* Very harmful if ingested or inhaled
* Stopped by sheet of paper
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Beta
* Fast moving
* Positively or negatively charged **electrons**
* Tritium, carbon-14, strontium-90
* More penetrating than alpha but less damaging over equal distances
* Capable of penetrating skin
* Travel 20 ft in air
* Stopped by layer of clothing or aluminum
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Gamma
* High energy photons
* Often accompany alpha or beta particles from nucleus
* No charge, no mass
* Very penetrating
* Potassium-40, cobalt-60, iridium-192, cesium-137
* Easily passes thru body
* 2 ft of concrete, several feet of earth, 2" of lead
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Neutron
* Ultrahigh energy particles
* Have a mass but no electrical charge
* Highly penetrating
* Soil moisture density gauges; research labs; operating nuclear power plants
* Release secondary radiation when they interact with human body
