WHMIS/HHPS
Flame symbol
What is the WHMIS/HHPS symbol for flammable?
A chemical used to kill pests in a farmer's field.
What is a pesticide?
A reaction where a fuel burns with oxygen.
What is a combustion reaction?
The substances found on the right side of a chemical equation.
What are the products of a chemical reaction?
A process that chemically breaks or degrades a metal.
What is corrosion?
Triangle, Diamond, Octagon
What shapes associated with the HHPS system indicate caution, warning, and dangerous?
A man-made material.
What is a synthetic material?
Two simple elements combine to form a single compound.
What is a simple composition reaction?
What are the reactants for a simple decomposition reaction?
A zinc coating added to a metal to prevent it from rusting or corroding.
What is galvanization?
A strong acid or base would have this symbol.
What is the corrosive symbol used for?
Chromium is added to prevent rusting
What component is added to Stainless Steel?
Matter can not be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
The number in front of a chemical formula that is used for balancing an equation.
What is a coefficient?
Combustion is used to convert these into energy.
What are fossil fuels?
A document which gives detailed information about a chemical product such as the potential hazards.
What is a Material Safety Data Sheet?
A Base and a Fatty Acid
What are the components required to make soap?
A solid that forms during a chemical reaction involving two solutions.
What is a precipitate?
There are 5 products if you include energy.
How many products are there in incomplete combustion?
Carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapour
What are the 3 natural greenhouse gasses?
Skull and crossbones symbol.
What is the WHMIS symbol for a fatally toxic chemical product?
A synthetic polymer that is often used for bullet proof vests.
What is Kevlar?
Indicated by an increase in temperature.
What is an exothermic reaction?
Can be used to indicate the state of the substance or how many atoms of an element are in a molecule.
What is a subscript?
Sulfur dioxide and Nitrous oxides
What are the most common pollutants in acid deposition?