ABSTRACT

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

chapter 1|24 pages

- Introduction

chapter 2|110 pages

- Basics of chemistry

chapter 3|42 pages

- Explosives

chapter 4|52 pages

- Compressed gases

chapter 5|72 pages

- Flammable liquids

chapter 6|22 pages

- Flammable solids

chapter 7|22 pages

- Oxidizers

chapter 8|72 pages

- Poisons

chapter 9|18 pages

- Radioactive materials

chapter 10|18 pages

- Corrosives

chapter 11|8 pages

- Miscellaneous hazardous materials

chapter 12|16 pages

- Incompatible and unstable chemicals