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HAZMAT TERMINOLOGY 4In clues, the following (_ words) indicates
the number of words without spaces in the answer
Across
1 The act of suffocation
6 A railroad car used to transport tractor trailer containers or
ship to shore
containers
9 The designation of areas at a hazardous materials incident
based on safety and
the degree of hazard (2 words)
11 The ability of a material to cause harm within the human
body
13 A geographical site, within the general incident area,
separate from the base,
equipped and staffed to provide food, water, and sanitary
services to incident
personnel
15 Any organic compound containing bivalent oxygen (2 words)
19 Four-inch square diamond warning markers required by DOT on
individual
shipping containers smaller than 640 cubic feet20 These are used
for illumination purposes and to decoy surface to air missiles
away from aircraft
22 A single exposure or repeated exposures to a hazardous
substance in a short time.
characterized by rapid severity and limited duration
24 A compressible compound or element with no specific volume
that assumes the
shape of the container
25 Used in or taken into the body through the mouth
26 That organization element having functional responsibility
for a specific incident
planning, logistics, or finance
27 Consuming food or other substances via the mouth
29 Respiratory devices designed for use only during escape from
hazardous
atmospheres (3 words)
31 The act or process of piercing something
32 Capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, or
the environment
Down
1 Inert materials used to absorb liquid contaminants. Materials
commonly include
corn cobs, diatomaceous earth, and sand2 Indication of the
acidity or alkalinity of a substance
3 Term that is the same as pyrophoric (3 words)
4 A solid fuel or oxidizer mixture burned in rocket/missile
propulsion systems to
provide thrust (2 words)
5 A vertical-standing atmospheric storage tank in which the roof
floats on the
surface of the stored liquid to eliminate the vapor space (4
words)
7 The individual or company who is receiving a shipment of
materials
8 A substance that prevents oxygen from being transmitted by red
blood cells or
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absorbed by body tissues
10 The area immediately surrounding the Warm Zone at a HazMat
site that is safe
for workers without protective gear and supports the Command
Post (2 words)
12 Shipping document identifying the list and location of all
hazardous materials
being transported on a cargo ship (3 words)
14 Poisonous, will cause damage to the human body when present
in small amounts
16 A chemical reaction involving intense heat moving through a
substance at lessthan the speed of sound
17 The body's breathing system (2 words)
18 The physical or chemical process of reducing and preventing
the spread of
contamination from persons and equipment used at hazardous
materials
incidents
20 Percentage of a substance in air that will burn when it is
ignited (2 words)
21 A type of decomposition characteristic of high molecular
weight substances such
as proteins, polymers, branched-chained sulfonates etc
23 A piece of transport equipment that is specifically designed
for repeated use in the
carriage of goods28 A mechanical device used to introduce air
into dry bulk solids to improve flow
capability
30 The identification number for a specific chemical compound as
assigned by the
American Chemical Society's Abstract Service
