Getting Chemical Information CAMEO Conference 1999

Agenda l Searching the Chemical Database l Using the Chemical Reactivity Worksheet l Practical Exercises

Searching the Chemical Database l Find l Find All l Quick Chemicals l Query

Using the Chemical Reactivity Worksheet l Adding Chemicals/Chemical Groups l Getting Information on Chemicals/Chemical Groups

Practical Exercises 1: What chemical has UNNO# 1040?

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

Practical Exercises 3: What chemicals have a NFPA logo? How many chemicals have a NFPA logo?

Practical Exercises 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?

Practical Exercises 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.

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

Practical Exercises 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.

Practical Exercises 6: There is a leaking 2,000 gallon tank at a container facility. The tank is cold and has the markings H 3 N and Non-flammable gas. What is in the tank?

Practical Exercises 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?

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

Practical Exercises 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?

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

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

Practical Exercises 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?

Practical Exercises 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 Exercises 14: 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: 1055-gal drumOXALANEUN gal drumDREWAMINEUN gal drumANILINEUN 2357 Which chemical is leaking? If more than one chemical were leaking would you need to worry about adverse chemical reactions?

Practical Exercises 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?

Practical Exercises 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?

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