Getting Chemical Information

CAMEO Conference 1999

Agenda

Searching the Chemical Database Using the Chemical Reactivity

Worksheet Practical Exercises

Searching the Chemical Database

Find Find All Quick Chemicals Query

Using the Chemical Reactivity Worksheet

Adding Chemicals/Chemical Groups

Getting Information on Chemicals/Chemical Groups

Practical Exercises

1: What chemical has UNNO# 1040?

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2: What is the chemical with UNNO# 1001? What is its lower explosive limit?

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3: What chemicals have a 4-3-4 NFPA logo? How many chemicals have a 4-4-4 NFPA logo?

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4: You come upon a wreck on the freeway. One of the vehicles is a truck that has lost a pallet of boxes from which a white crystalline material has spilled. The only thing information you can see on the box is the word SLUG. What do you think the material is?

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5: You are called to a facility that has reported leaking tanks of an unknown chemical. Upon arrival you see through binoculars a DOT Label with Poison Gas and a UNNO# of 1911.

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5A: Find all chemicals that match these criteria DOT - Poison Gas AND UNNO# - 1911.5B: What type personal protective equipment (PPE) should you use in an emergency situation with thischemical?

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5C: You now notice a cylinder with UNNO#-1017 AND DOT label-Poison Gas. What is it? 5D: Find reactivity concerns for Diborane and Chlorine.

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6: There is a leaking 2,000 gallon tank at a container facility. The tank is cold and has the markings H3N and Non-flammable gas. What is in the tank?

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7: You are given that the only visible part of the label on a bag has the ending of a chemical name, rox Q. What is this material?

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8: What is the chemical in a 5,000 gallon tanker with a placard 1067?

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9: You open a cargo container and find some 55 lb. bags thrown around and broken open. You see the following markings: HNA and carite. What is in the bags? Is water a good mitigation technique?

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10: You receive a message stating the wording on a drum with a dark liquid in it is either 1270 or 1207. What do you find is the more likely wording and what is the material.

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11: Given the clues Tetrachlor and 1846, what is the chemical? Are there any fire hazards associated with it?

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12: A storage shed at a shipyard appears to have a gas leak and fire. According to the shop foreman, the shed stores the following chemicals: Oxygen, nitrogen, acetylene, and argon. What do you think is leaking and on fire?

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13: Two tank cars overturn at a container facility. One of the tanker cars has molasses in it. The other car has a placard that reads “Flammable Gas”. Additionally, the number “4905” and the word “DIME” are listed on the car. There is a strong fishy smell in the air. What is the chemical?

Practical Exercises14: You receive a report of a container being dropped during the offloading from a container barge. When you arrive you notice a strong ammonia-like smell. You look at the Dangerous Cargo manifest and note the following chemicals listed:10 55-gal drum OXALANE UN 205643 55-gal drum DREWAMINE UN 205412 55-gal drum ANILINE UN 2357Which chemical is leaking? If more than one chemical were leaking would you need to worry about adverse chemical reactions?

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15: A case falls off a truck and breaks open. A trade name on a box that spilled out says the word RAT. The area smells like garlic. A DOT label says Spontaneously Combustible. What is the chemical?

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16: What could you tell about the chemicals in a drum which you can see the following: 2-CHLO, UN 2, and a DOT Label that says Flammable?

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17: Find the chemical TCM. Is this chemical of concern if spilled in fairly small quantities? Is this chemical of concern in a fire?