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This new edition of "Chemistry of Hazardous Materials" remains an important basic chemistry text for Emergency Responders with expanded coverage on many essential hazardous materials topics, such as: the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemical Substances (GHS), terrorist threats relative to biological, chemical, and radioactive agents, updated best practices for the handling and storage of hazardous materials, new end-of-chapter exercises, updated D.O.T. regulations, information on warning labels and material safety sheets for use by Emergency Responders, and new lists of hazardous materials. This new edition continues the successful presentation of earlier editions by emphasizing the hazardous materials regulations established by the OSHA, the U.S. D.O.T., and the EPA.

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• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Features of Matter and Energy
• Chapter 3 Flammable Gases and Flammable Liquids
• Chapter 4 Chemical Forms of Matter
• Chapter 5 Principles of Chemical Reactions
• Chapter 6 Use of the DOT Hazardous Materials Regulations by Emergency
• Chapter 7 Chemistry of Some Common Elements
• Chapter 8 Chemistry of Some Corrosive Materials
• Chapter 9 Chemistry of Some Water-Reactive Substances
• Chapter 10 Chemistry of Some Toxic Substances
• Chapter 11 Chemistry of Some Oxidizers
• Chapter 12 Chemistry of Some Hazardous Organic Compounds I
• Chapter 13 Chemistry of Some Hazardous Organic Compounds II
• Chapter 14 Chemistry of Some Polymeric Materials
• Chapter 15 Chemistry of Some Explosives
• Chapter 16 Radioactive Materials
• Appendix A Table of Elements and Atomic Weights
• Glossary
• Subject Index Hazardous Materials
• Index

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Eugene Meyer earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida in 1964. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Instituut voor Kernphysisch Onderzoek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1965. He served as Professor of Chemistry with tenure at Lewis University, Lockport, Illinois from 1965 to 1979. He joined the technical staff of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5 in 1979, serving as Regional Expert in the Chemistry of Hazardous Waste and Chief of the Technical Programs Section of the Hazardous Waste Division. In 1982, he became President of Meyer Environmental Consultants, Inc., where during the course of his work to the present, he consulted with attorneys at the U.S. Department of Justice and private law firms or served in the capacity of an expert witness on more than 200 legal matters concerned with the transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous substances. He is now retired and lives with his wife in Las Vegas, Nevada.