The relationship between volume and pressure, and moles of substance and temperature, is known as this.
What is the Ideal Gas Law (PV = nRT)?
100
This gas makes up about 78% of the earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
100
Fire requires the triad of these things.
What is fuel, oxygen (or oxidizer), and ignition source?
100
Karen Magnussen, Olympic figure skater, claims her coaching career was ended because of exposure to this industrial refrigerant.
What is ammonia?
100
This “P” gas formed by combustion of chlorinated hydrocarbons causes airway irritation and delayed pulmonary edema.
What is phosgene?
200
The chemical reaction between nitrogen oxides and VOCs, powered by sunlight, produces this compound.
What is ozone (or photochemical smog)?
200
This gas was the second most common means of non-pharmaceutical suicide in the Sand Diego region, after carbon monoxide.
What is helium?
Helium asphyxiation is discussed in the book "Final Exit" and is also a method used by the Swiss organisation Dignitas. DPIC has had reports of helium suicides as well.
200
This compound formed from combustion of PVC is thought to be a faster incapacitating agent than carbon monoxide.
What is hydrochloric acid?
200
This self-limiting flu-like illness is seen in metal workers and hobbyists.
What is metal fume fever?
200
This “P” gas used as a fumigant is also an irritant but can also cause cellular asphyxiation.
What is phosphine?
300
Removing tarnish from silverware with this electrolytic method using baking soda and an aluminum pan can create this inhalation hazard.
What is hydrogen sulfide?
300
These atmospheric compounds are the primary causes of acid rain, but are also potent pulmonary irritants.
What are sulfur oxides (SOx) and/or nitrogen oxides (NOx)?
300
April 2015 marks the centennial of this infamous event in world history.
What is the first deployment of chemical warfare?
(The German Army deployed chlorine gas on French troops April 22, and Canadian troops at Ypres April 24, 1915)
300
Silo filler’s disease is caused by exposure to this gas.
What is nitrogen dioxide (produced by fermentation of silage)?
300
“Detergent suicide” involves generating this toxic gas in an enclosed space, like inside a car.
What is hydrogen sulphide (acid drain cleaner plus sulphur source)
400
2 parts:
This solvent found in paint strippers does not need to burn in order to cause this poisoning.
What is methylene chloride and carbon monoxide poisoning.
400
The average Canadian spends this proportion of time indoors:
- 60%
- 70%
- 80%
- 90%
- 95%
What is 90%?
400
This "therapeutic" effect of a cyanide antidote is potentially harmful in smoke inhalation victims.
What is methmeoglobinemia?
400
Supplied-air respirators can provide this vital thing that air-purifying respirators sometimes cannot.
What is oxygen (in an oxygen deficient atmosphere)?
400
One mL of gas in one cubic metre of air is equal to this "P" concentration.
What is one ppm (part per million)?
500
Gosio's disease was caused by inhalation of this methylated metal compound, created by mold growing on Victorian-era wallpaper.
What is trimethylarsine?
(from microbial biotransformation of Scheele's green pigment in Victorian-era wallpaper – although some believe it was the mold that caused the illnesses)
500
These organic irritant gases can be generated by combustion as well as by natural release (off-gassing) from various materials.
What are aldehydes (formaldehyde, acrolein)?
500
There are this many hyperbaric chambers available in BC for the treatment of CO-poisoned patients.
What is one?*
(At Vancouver General)
500
Isocyanates are a leading cause of this problem.
What is occupational asthma?
in Ontario, 58% of compensated occupational asthma claims are due to isocyanate exposure.
500
This component of air pollution is considered to have the most important effect on health, with positive associations with CV and resp disease, days off work and ER visits.