Chemical Properties
This is the minimum temperature at which a liquid or solid emits vapor sufficient to form an ignitable mixture with air near the surface of the liquid or the solid.
What is Flash Point?
This material will have a power of hydrogen value less than 7.
What is an Acid?
These are "Right Now" exposures that produce observable signs such as eye irritation, coughing, dizziness, and skin burns.
What are Acute Exposures?
This is the mnemonic used in the emergency response community when referencing the signs and symptoms associated with a nerve agent release.
What is SLUDGEM?
These packages are used to ship low-level radioactive substances, such as smoke detectors.
What is Excepted Packaging?
This is an explosion that occurs when pressurized liquified materials (e.g. propane or butane) inside a closed vessel are exposed to a source of high heat.
What is a BLEVE?
This form of radiation has sufficient energy to alter the atomic structure of materials or cells which it interacts.
What is Ionizing Radiation?
This is the ability of a substance to dissolve in water.
What is Water Solubility?
This biological agent is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus Anthracis.
What is Anthrax?
This packaging is used to ship certain shipments of low-activity material, or contaminated objects, which are usually categorized as radioactive waste.
What is Industrial Packaging?
This is the weight of an airborne concentration (vapor or gas) as compared to an equal volume of dry air.
What is Vapor Density?
This is the pressure, measured in pounds per square inch, absolute (psia), exerted by a liquid.
What is Vapor Pressure?
This is the process of transferring a hazardous material, or the components of a weapon of mass destruction (WMD), from its source to people, animals, the environment, or equipment, which can act as a carrier.
What is Contamination?
This biological agent is caused by Yersinia Pestis, a bacterium that is commonly found on rodents.
What is Plague?
This type of packaging is designed to protect the internal radiological contents during normal transportation and in the event of a minor accident. Examples of the material shipped in this packaging would include nuclear medicines (radiopharmaceuticals), and radioactive wastes.
What is Type A Packaging?
This is the lowest temperature at which a liquid will ignite and achieve sustained burning when exposed to a test flame.
What is Fire Point?
This is the process of reacting monomers together in a chain reaction to form polymers.
What is Polymerization?
This is the weight of liquid as compared to water.
What is Specific Gravity?
This biological agent is a highly infectious and often fatal disease caused by Variola.
What is Smallpox?
This type of packaging is designed to prevent the release of its contents in the event of extreme accidents in transportation. This type of vessel would contain spent nuclear fuel, high-level radioactive waste, and high concentrations of of other radioactive material.
What is Type B Packaging?
This is the minimum concentration of combustible vapor or combustible gas in a mixture of the vapor or gas and gaseous oxidant above which propagation of flame will occur on contact with an ignition source.
What is Lower Explosive Limit (LEL)?
This is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of a liquid equals the surrounding atmospheric pressure.
What is Boiling Point?
What is Non-ionizing Radiation?
As it pertains to biological agents, this is why exposed people would not begin to show signs of being infected until 2 to 17 days after exposure to these organisms.
What is the Incubation Period?
Although not considered a weapon of mass destruction, this has been described by the NFPA as "any device that causes the purposeful dissemination of radioactive material across an area without a nuclear detonation."
What is a Dirty Bomb?