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
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Hazardous Materials Chemistry for Emergency Responders
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- In memory of Chris Waters
- Author
- Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Chapter 2 - Basics of chemistry
- Chapter 3 - Explosives
- Chapter 4 - Compressed gases
- Chapter 5 - Flammable liquids
- Chapter 6 - Flammable solids
- Chapter 7 - Oxidizers
- Chapter 8 - Poisons
- Chapter 9 - Radioactive materials
- Chapter 10 - Corrosives
- Chapter 11 - Miscellaneous hazardous materials
- Chapter 12 - Incompatible and unstable chemicals
- Appendix
- Glossary
- References
- Back Cover
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