The temperature at which sustained combustion will occur.
What is Fire point?
100
A "right now" exposure
What is an Acute exposure?
100
A material capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, or environment.
What is Hazard or Hazardous material?
100
Exposure to a hazardous material by swallowing the substance.
What is Ingestion?
100
A chemical capable of causing convulsions or seizures when absorbed by the body.
What is a Convulsant?
200
The minimum temperature at which a fuel, when heated, will ignite in air and continue to burn.
What is Ignition Temperature?
200
A single dose that causes the death
What is Lethal Dose?
200
The process by which people, animals, the environment or equipment are subjected to or come into contact with a hazardous material.
What is an Exposure?
200
Exposure to a hazardous material by breathing the substance into the lungs.
What is Inhalation?
200
A chemical designed to inhibit breathing and typically intended to incapacitate rather than kill its victims.
What is a Choking agent?
300
An expression of a fuel/air mixture, defined by the upper and lower limits, that reflect an amount of flammable vapor mixed with a given volume of air.
What is Flammable Range?
300
"long-term" exposure.
What is Chronic Exposure?
300
An expression of the amount of dissolved hydrogen ions in a solution.
What is pH?
300
Exposure to a hazardous material by the substance entering cuts or other breaches in the skin.
What is Injection?
300
UN # 1017
What is Chlorine?
400
A description of the volume increase that occurs when a liquid changes to a gas.
What is Expansion Ratio?
400
Capable of causing an illness by entry of a pathogenic microorganism.
What is Infectious?
400
A substance that dissolves another substance so as to make a solution.
What is Solvent?
400
The process of applying by which substances travel through body tissues until they reach the bloodstream.
What is Absorption?
400
UN # 1486
What is Potassium Nitrate?
500
The minimum temperature at which a liquid or solid releases sufficient vapor to form an ignitable mixture with air.
What is Flash Point?
500
An adverse health effect occurring after a long-term exposure
What is Chronic health hazard?
500
The continued presence of a substance in the environment.
What is Persistence?
500
The process of transferring a hazardous material from it source to people.
What is Contamination?
500
Chemicals that interfere with the utilization of oxygen by the cells of the body.