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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 ind

Who reads Hazardous Materials Chemistry for Emergency Responders, Third Edition?

Author

Robert Burke

Publisher

CRC Press, Taylor & Francis

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439849866

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Science, Technology