Nubia Clermont Chemistry Feb 27th‚ 2015 1. Detailed explanation of how smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors work. How do smoke detectors work? *Smoke alarms detect the smoke that comes from a fire; once it detects the smoke the smoke will trigger an alarm sound to ring off. The Ionization smoke detector detects smoke by sensing smoke particles. When these smoke particles pass through a chamber‚ it will absorb the alpha particles present from the alpha source. The smoke absorbing the alpha
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the Great Chicago Fire was a disaster of devastation‚ and most likely the worst disaster of the 19th century. The tragedy killed more than 300 people and left more than 100‚000 people without homes. Not only did the conflagration take a human toll‚ but the fire caused 200 million dollars in property damage and decimated more than three square miles of the city of Chicago. Despite speculation on the true cause of the fire‚ Emily Upton describes natural factors that allowed the fire to become a monstrous
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FC2 FIRE SAFETY PRACTICAL APPLICATION Summary fire risk assessment sheet FORM 3 Student name Location ***************** Student number ********* Date undertaken 22 / 6 / 13 ****************************** Assessment of risk of fire occurring – H/M/L with justification (this may be either by accident‚ by a possible act or omission or by an intentional act) There are a number of standard combustibles around the site all of which are not accessible to the public. There is an ongoing
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The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was the effect of mistakes that happened when trying to respond to a barn fire. The barn fire originated at the O’Leary Farm‚ when Mrs. O’Leary was milking a cow and the cow knocked over a lantern that Mrs. O’Leary placed on the ground for some light. Chicago “The Windy City”‚ had a vast amount of wood‚ coal‚ and other natural gasses‚ shipped in to build and and build fast because of the majority of people that were flocking in. Most buildings even with the most sturdy
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of scarce resources‚ separation of collations‚ and their organizational culture lead to the disaster of Mann Gulch in August of 1949. Little to no unity existed among members of this organization which caused them to be doomed from the beginning. To fire-jump everything needs to be in unity in order for average men to commit their lives for the job. Power struggles and cultural norms impeded group cohesion causing sub-groups and ambiguity along the way. By using both the political and symbolic frames
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am about to tell you about what happened in Chicago fire that happened 1871. It devastated a lot of people made 100‚000s of people homeless. What I think about the Chicago fire is that if it had happen any where else the people would had acted the same as the people in Chicago did. Now I will tell you what happened in Chicago. When William lee reached Goll’s drugstore‚ he was gasping for air and frantic. In his breathless voice lee requested the key to the alarm box that was mounted outside of
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a earthquake and fire developed in San Francisco that only lasted seconds‚ but yet it destroyed ¾ of the city including 300‚000 homes and 38‚000 buildings at the end. Much of the destruction that day was caused by the fire that the earthquake started that is why people today call it “the great Fire of 1906.” During the earthquake the head of the city’s fire department passed away when the chimney of his home collapsed on top of him. In addition to this tragic incident the fire department lost almost
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accommodate the price control‚ thus causing them not to be able to fill those positions. 2. Assume you are a policymaker in Washington DC. Lobbyists for the preschoolers of America have put pressure on their representatives to cap prices on graham crackers. You have been assigned a position on a new committee to study the impact of a price
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Pepys about the Great Fire of London in 1666‚ text B being a news article on a fire that devastated Tasmania a few year ago. Do the texts have similarities? Despite there being about a 300-year difference between the two articles written there are actually quite a few similarities. Firstly‚ both the texts are written in first person and in a personal way. They use the same pronouns‚ the pronouns being ‘I’ and ‘us’. They both also talk about a very similar topic being a fire that took the lives and
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Barber 9 May 2012 Guilt and Shame in Who You Are: An Analysis of Kinbote in the Novel Pale Fire Out of the many forms of literary criticism that have been imposed on Pale Fire‚ there is one in particular that Vladimir Nabokov consistently refutes: psychoanalytic criticism. Though Nabokov regularly discredits psychoanalysis‚ I believe that it is crucial to use a psychoanalytic lens when looking at Pale Fire in general but more specifically when looking at the character of Charles Kinbote. As discussed
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