 | Emergency Characterization of Unknown Materials Subjects: Bioscience; Engineering & Technology; Politics & International Relations; Forensic Science; Civil Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering; Military & Strategic Studies; Waste & Recycling; Homeland Security; Deliberately, accidentally, or consequentially, first responders and waste site workers handle unknown substances of varying degrees of danger every day. Unidentified chemicals involved with clandestine production of WMD agents or drugs, explosive materials, unlabeled waste, and forensic samples all pose a threat to the worker and those they prote |
