Chemical Reactions

Richard Spilsbury

Description

The calm of the night is shattered by an explosion and flames: a chemical factory is on fire, and a dangerous gas is drifting across town! This book looks at the topic of chemical reactions to explain the properties of chemicals and how they react, what has caused the explosion, and how the resulting fire and pollution can be tackled. It shows how the emergency services use their knowledge of science and technology to make the factory safe, and how investigators can analyse the evidence to determine the cause of the disaster.

Informations

• Publié par: Capstone Global Library
• Date de parution: 12 septembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781406268515
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 13 Mo

Extrait

A N AT O M Y O F A N I N V E S T I G AT I O N

Chemical Reactions: INVESTIGATING AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT

Richard Spilsbury

Raintree is an imprint of Capstone Global Library Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales having its registered oîce at 7 Pilgrim Street, London, EC4V 6LB – Registered company number: 6695582

To contact Raintree, please phone [phone], fax + 44 (0) 1865 312263, or email myorders@ raintreepublishers.co.uk.

Text © Capstone Global Library Limited 2014 First published in hardback in 2014 The moral rights of the proprietor have been asserted.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner, except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS (www.cla.co.uk). Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission should be addressed to the publisher.

Edited by Andrew Farrow, Adam Miller, and Adrian Vigliano Designed by Richard Parker Original illustrations © HL Studios Illustrated by James Stayte (pages 4–7); HL Studios Picture research by Ruth Blair Production by Sophia Argyris Originated by Capstone Global Library Ltd Printed and bound in China by CTPS

ISBN 978 1 406 26101 1 17 16 15 14 13 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Spilsbury, Richard Chemical reactions: investigating an industrial accident. – (Anatomy of an investigation)

A full catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce photographs: Alamy pp. 9 (© Nancy G Fire Photography, Nancy Greifenhagen), 19 (© Gautier Stephane/Sagaphoto.com), 29 (© chris mcloughlin), 46 (© Fancy); Corbis pp. 15 (© Sanjeev Gupta/epa), 20 (© Zhang Wenkui/Xinhua Press), 22 (© Reuters), 27 (© Glowimages), 28 (© Xue Yubin/Xinhua Press), 31 (© Radius Images), 33 (© Luc Gnago/Reuters), 40 (© FLPA/Wayne Hutchinson), 41 (© Tyrone Turner/ National Geographic Society); Getty Images pp. 11 (STR/AFP), 12 (Christopher Furlong), 39 (Peter Essick/ Aurora), 38 (Lionel Healing/AFP), 42 (William Philpott/ AFP), 47 (China Photos); Masterfile p. 44 (R. Ian Lloyd); Shutterstock pp. 16 (© OlegD), 17 (© Scott Karcich), 24 (© Warren Goldswain), 30 (© Anita Patterson Peppers), 34 (© George Spade), 48 (© Vankad); Superstock pp. 18 (Flirt), 21 (Jochen Tack/ imagebrok / imagebroker.net), 35 (Jim Reed).

Cover photograph of a fireman in protective suit putting out a fire reproduced with permission of Getty Images (China Photos).

We would like to thank Nigel Saunders for his invaluable help in the preparation of this book.

Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders of any material reproduced in this book. Any omissions will be rectified in subsequent printings if notice is given to the publisher.

Disclaimer All the internet addresses (URLs) given in this book were valid at the time of going to press. However, due to the dynamic nature of the internet, some addresses may have changed, or sites may have changed or ceased to exist since publication. While the author and publisher regret any inconvenience this may cause readers, no responsibility for any such changes can be accepted by either the author or the publisher.

Contents

Night time blast ..................................................................... 4

The investigation begins ........................................................ 8

Site destruction....................................................................16

Dangerous gas ..................................................................... 26

Environmental impact .......................................................... 34

End of the investigation ....................................................... 42

Investigation: a chemical reaction ........................................ 48

Timeline ............................................................................... 50

Glossary ............................................................................... 52

Find out more....................................................................... 54

Index .................................................................................... 56

Some words are printed in bold,like thiscan find out what. You they mean by looking in the glossary on page 52.

N

4

ig

h

t tim

e

B

l

It was a quiet night at the chemical factory in the sleepy town of Savenner.

And that was the gobal hit, “Rolling in the...”

Whoo-hoo

Suddenly there’s an explosion.

a

st