BEFO FINAL TEST QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Home assembled on site consisting of constructed panels made of foam insulation sandwiched between sheets of plywood. - Answer-panelized homes
potential energy available for release in the combustion process - Answer-heat of combustion
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Home assembled on site consisting of constructed panels made of foam insulation
sandwiched between sheets of plywood. - Answer-panelized homes
potential energy available for release in the combustion process - Answer-heat of
combustion
The quantity of heat required to change the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree
Celcius - Answer-4.2 joules
reactions that emit energy as they occur - Answer-exothermic reaction
reactions that absorb energy as they occur - Answer-endothermic reaction
off gassing chemical change in solids - Answer-vaporization
most common form of ignition, when a mixture of fuel and oxygen encounter an external
heat source - Answer-piloted ignition
3 sides of a fire triangle - Answer-heat, fuel, oxygen
4 sides of fire tetrahedron - Answer-reducing agent (fuel, chemical chain reaction,
oxidizing agent, heat
minimum temperature at which a fuel in the air must be heated in order to start self
sustained combustion - Answer-autoignition temperature (AIT)
combustion occurs more slowly and at lower temperatures, producing a
smoldering glow in the materials surface - Answer-nonflaming
combustion produces a visible flame above the material's surface. AKA fire -
Answer-flaming
Smoke is the product of? - Answer-incomplete combustion
colorless, odorless gas, released when an organic material burns with limited supply of
oxygen. - Answer-Carbon monoxide (CO)
a toxic, flammable substance produces in the combustion of materials containing
nitrogen. 35 times more toxic than CO - Answer-Hydrogen cyanide (HCN)
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