He broods in front of the computer most of the day, scanning chemical databases and holding his fire until he has a really good idea.
It was originally thought the spill involved about 3, 000 litres of a chemical liquid, but the fire service said it was 775 litres of non-hazardous petroleum distillates.
The Petroleum Association of Wyoming says that 2-BE isn't an oil and gas chemical but is a common fire retardant used in association with plastics and plastic components used in drinking wells.
It focuses on products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard, or that can injure children.
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Man overboard, fire, damage control, chemical attack, intruders, injuries, aircraft incident.
"Stocks of fire-fighting foam containing this chemical have been phased out at Guernsey Airport now that a suitable replacement has become available, " added Deputy Flouquet.
UN's Special Commission, whose job it has been since the Gulf war ended in 1991 to strip Iraq of its secret chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to fire them.
Public health advocates maintain that the health risks from exposure to chemical flame retardants is higher than that of fire, and point out that the chemicals are often used on products that pose little fire risk.
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On 23 February 1997, a serious fire broke out, triggered by a chemical oxygen generator.
The new department would concentrate on safeguarding borders, working with first-responders such as local police and fire departments, analyzing threats and promoting technological changes to counter chemical, biological and nuclear threats.
These generally require enhanced oil recovery techniques such as gas (CO2) injection, chemical injection, microbial injection, cyclic steam injection, steam flooding, and fire flooding.
On Tuesday, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said it was conducting a chemical analysis of internal short circuiting and thermal damage of the battery that caught fire in Boston.
Baghdad also had said it destroyed remaining stocks of its chemical and biological weapons as was required under the terms of the cease-fire that ended the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
One of the key culprits in the cascade is a chemical messenger called glutamate, which normally plays a crucial role in learning and memory by stimulating nerve cells to fire.
Bush administration officials -- Powell among them -- argued that Iraq had harbored stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, a hidden nuclear weapons program and long-range missiles in violation of the cease-fire that ended the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
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