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During pre-incident emergency pipeline planning, what can greatly assist the hazmat technician level responder checking for gas migration?
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Maps
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All of the following are capabilities of limitations of an oxygen meter except:
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Does not indicate gas toxicity
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What supervisor makes recommendations concerning control activities in the hot zone?
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Entry officer
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When maintaining records for chemical protective clothing, what three areas should you be documenting?
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Use, Repair, and Tests
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All of the following are safety considerations for the wear of an air purifying respirator except
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The respirator is to be used in an IDLH environment
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The level of decontamination of extreme hazards is:
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Level C
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What percentage of oxygen indicates a deficient environment?
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19.5%
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The most complex 55 gallon drum leak to control is:
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The forklift puncture
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The technique that pulls vapors from the receiving tank, compresses them, and forces them in the damaged tank is called:
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Vapor Compressor
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The pressure transfer method that uses nitrogen or carbon dioxide to move the contents:
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Compressed air
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PTO power take off pumps can be used with which group of cargo tanks?
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306 + 307
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What method of decontamination is NOT as effective on porous surfaces and could take a long time to completely remove the chemical?
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Evaporation
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The evaporation of a flammable liquid spill is an example of which method of decontamination?
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Chemical degradation
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when using this form of decontamination, the run off must be collected and disposed of properly.
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Dilution
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The limitation of what form of decontamination produces heat and can cause sponatneous combustion...
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Adsorption
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What is the chemical method of decon that involves the interaction of a hazardous liquid and a solid sorbent surface?
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Absorption
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Which of the following is a limitation of using the decon method of vacuuming?
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May require specialized equipment
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At a hazardous materials incident, responders applied a special formulation to an acid to form a neutral salt. This is an example of:
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Neutralization
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This is the temperature that organic proxides should be stored to ensure that they do not reach self accelerating temperature.
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Maximum safe storage temperature
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The minimum temp at which a material gives off vapor in sufficient concentration to form an ignitable mixture with air but will not continue to burn is?
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Flash Point
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What term refers to the concentration of hydrogen ions in the material being tested?
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Inhibitor
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What is the term that means the weight of a given vapor as compared with an equal volume of air with air having a value of 1.0?
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Vapor Density
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Materials that have at least one multiple bond between two carbon atoms somewhere in the molecule that causes them to be more hazardous is known as?
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Unsaturated hydrocarbon
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The difference between the upper and lower flammable limits is known as?
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The flammable range
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As a hazardous materials tech you must be able to identify the signs, symptoms, and what other effect through the use of references when people are exposed to hazardous materials?
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Target Organs
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This is an international unit of the intensity of x-rays and gamma rays?
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Roentgen equivalent man
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The maximum concentration to which a healthy adult can be exposed without risk of injury?
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TLV-C
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What is the maximum level to which a healthy worker can be exposed for 30 minutes and escape without suffering irreversible effects?
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IDLH
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By design the MC 312 / 412 cargo tank trucks may be pressurized to no more than?
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35 - 50 PSI
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The cargo tank truck designed to specifically carry only solid materials is...
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Pneumatically unloaded hopper
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Load limits for tanks printed on the container are listed in...
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Pounds and Kilograms
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The data printed on railcars normally provides what type of information relating to capacities?
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Pressure
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Railcars that appear larger than expected because of their insulation?
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Cryogenic liquid tank car
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Materials being transported in a cryogenic railroad tank car are normally no warmer than?
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-130º Fahrenheit
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Ordinary cone roof construction is designed to hold its contents at no more than?
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.5 psig
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Fixed facility floating non pressure tanks may contain up to how many gallons?
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1,000,000
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Fixed facility atmospheric horizontal non pressure tanks may contain up to how many gallons?
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20,000
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The company indicated on a pipeline marker may help the tech level responder at a pipeline incident by?
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Supplying shutdown procedures
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All of the following are ways the company indicated on a pipeline marker may help the tech level responder at a pipeline incident except?
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Dispatching EPA strike teams
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Which of the following is the strongest packaging for radioactive materials?
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Type B
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Low level radioactive materials such as depleted uranium, natural uranium, and rubble from decommissioned nuclear plants are excepted and called?
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Strong, tight containers
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Expected packaging as it pertains to radioactive materials means?
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Packaging for extremely low levels of radioactivity
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What may result in a build up of heat that in turn causes an increase in pressure and may be more harmful that the material the container was designed to withstand?
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Chemical Interaction
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The tendancy or ability of two or more liquids to form uniform blend or to dissolve in each other is referred as?
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Miscibilty
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This method of detection performs a specific test and reduces false positives.
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Gas chromatography meter
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The more common radiation detection instruments measure only...
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Gamma Rays
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What minimizes the exposure to adjointing tanks?
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Product spillage and control systems
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An indentation in the shell made by a relatively blunt object is a?
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Score
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What minimizes the hazard to uninvolved tanks?
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Tank Spacing
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All of the following indicate the effects of mixing various hazardous materials except...
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Condensed chemical dictionary
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Because cryogenic liquids are kept at temperatures below -150º degrees, they will do what rapidly when exposed to temps outside the tank?
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Vaporize
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The two methods for determining the pressure in bulk packaging or facility containers are a pressure gauge and knowing the contents...
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Temperature
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Which is the reduction in thickness of the container made by a sharp chisel like object?
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Gouge
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What is used to determine the amount of liquid in a tank car?
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Gauging devices
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The term that describes the influence that harardous material presents and often determines the measures taken to control an incident is?
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Physical state
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These are measurements of radioactivity?
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Counts per min / kilo counts per min
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To measure the corrositivity of a solid the responder must place the sample in what to measure the PH?
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Water
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When performing minor field maintenance on monitoring equipment, a hazmat tech should be able to?
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Replace sensors
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This technique can be used for qualitative chemical measurments..
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Wet chemistry
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Which detector is affected by sensitivity high temps and low temps
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Chemical agent monitor
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This type of analyzer detects volatile organic components (VOCS)
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Mass channel analyzer
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This technology has the capability to shift photons up or down and providing info about the material?
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Roman spectroscopy
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All of the following are limitations of biological immunoassay indicators except...
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Toxic Material
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The spectrometry is capable of detecting and identifying very low concentrations below less than one part per million?
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Ion mobility spectrometry
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The capability of this sensor is quantifying compounds in concentration below less than one part per million?
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Metal oxide sensor
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This instrument has the capability to detect more than one agent at the same time...
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Surface acoustic wave
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Which dosimeters are product specific and other chemicals may interfere with their readings?
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Passive
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What is the measure of a substance tendancy to deteriorate in the presence of another substance or in a particular environment?
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Corrositivity
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A material that is frequently more toxic than naturally occurring organic chemicals
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Halogenated Hydrocarbons
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What has a tendency to break down into its components parts, sometimes in an explosive manner?
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Compund / Mixture
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What agents are extremely toxic with the symptoms of exposure not appearing for minutes, hours, or days
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Vesicants (blister agents)
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The term is a misnomer however because these agents do not actually affect blood in any way
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Blood agents
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What term refers to the concentration of hydrogen ions in the material being tested?
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Inhibitor
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Which of the following may cause the pressure within a container to rise particularly if it becomes contaminated?
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Acid / Caustic
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The amount of radiation energy deposited in the body
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Dose
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Materials that contain the benzene ring...
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Aromatic Hydrocarbons
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Materials where the carbon atoms are linked by only single covalent bonds are known as?
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Saturated Hydrocarbons
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A unit to measure a quantity called absorbed dose.
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Radiation Absorbed Dose
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What term is used to describe the maximum concentration to which a healthy adult can be exposed without risk of injury.
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TLV-C
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This term is dependent on pathogenic variables as well as host variables such as health, gender, and predisposition.
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Infectious Dose
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The amount of material in the air that on the basis of laboratory test (inhalation route) expected to kill 50% population
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Lethal Concentraion (LC50)
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A responder must first determine the concentration for the released material in order to determine the acceptable... ?
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Exposure limits
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Reference manuals such as CCD, GHCR, all provide information
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A little differently
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Which resource can assist in predicting Hazmat dispersion patterns
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Health Departments
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To make predictions about the potential outcome of a hazmat, a tech level responder would analyze physical, cognitive, and ... ?
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Technical Information
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What device is used to measure oxygen in the air
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Maters
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The working pressure of an IM 101intermodal tank containter ranges from?
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25.4 to 100 psig
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Intermodal tube containers are designed to carry matierals in what physical state?
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Gas
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Materials being transported in a cryogenic railroad tank car are normally no warmer than?
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-130 degrees
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Test date printed on railcars normally provides what type of information relating to capacities?
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Pressure
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Tank test pressures for nonpressure tank cars are typically between?
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60g-100g
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Fixed facility atmospheric horizontal nonpressure tanks may contain up to how many gallons?
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20,000g
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For information on the type of product in a pipeline, the hazmat tech should contact the?
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Company from the info identified on the pipline marker
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Accepted packaging as it pertains to radioactive materials means...
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Packaging for extremely low levels of radioactivity
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A radioactive material label with one vertical bar indicated the material presents what level of radiation?
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Low
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Low level radioactive materials such as depleted uranium, natural uranium, and rubble from decommissioned nuclear plants are excepted and called
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Strong tight containers
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Information used to analyze a hazardous materials incident and make predictions of potential outcomes
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Physical
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Positively charged particles emitted by some radioactive materials and are not considered dangerous unless ingested
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Alpha Radiation
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The death of 50% of a group of test animals exposed to it by any route other than inhalation?
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Lethal Dose
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What does a responder need to determine FIRST?
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The Concentration of the material
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55 gallon drum falls on the loading dock. IC will have to break the incident into three compenents... ?
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The product, the container, and the environment
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All of the following instruments can be used to measure toxic levels except?
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FEMA
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A responder is attempting to identify an emergency. Already monitored for carbon monoxide. The next hazard to monitor is?
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Organic Vapor
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All of the following instruments can be used to measure toxic levels except?
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Combustible gas indicators
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During the analysis process to identify an unknown?
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Radioactivity, combustible, oxygen, pH, Hydrogen, sulfide, carbon monoxide
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What method is used to determine the pathogenicity on scene?
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DNA fluoroscopy
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