Dangers in your home: knowing how to handle household products containing hazardous materials or chemicals can reduce the risk o
f injury. It is important to store household chemicals where children cannot access them. Remember that common products such as aerosol cans of hair spray and deodorant, nail polish and nail polish remover, toilet bowl cleaners and furniture polishes are hazardous materials. Other hazardous household products include: ~Cleaning products ~Automotive products like antifreeze or motor oil ~Items like batteries, mercury thermometers and florescent light bulbs ~Flammable products: kerosene, home heating oil, propane tanks and lighter fluid ~Workshop or painting supplies: paint thinners and turpentine ~Herbicides and insecticides Your parents have purchased some insecticide to kill ants that keep showing up in the kitchen and pantry. The box has a small tear in it and your father repackages the insecticide in a plastic container and stores it on a high shelf in the pantry. Is this a reasonable practice? Explain. A) Yes; the container cannot tear or break. B) No; insecticides should never be brought into a home. C) No; the container is unlabeled and may be mistaken for food. D) Yes; the container is intact and stored out of reach of children.
Answer: C) No; the container is unlabeled and may be mistaken for food.
Explanation: The harmful or flammable chemicals such as insecticides, toilet cleaners , mercury thermometers must be stored in glass bottles with tight caps and put on high shelf with a cross symbol with its name labeled on it.
As this will help to recognize the substance by each individual of the family. Thus cannot be mistaken for something else.
Also such harmful substances must not be kept in pantries.
This law states that, despite chemical reactions or physical transformations, mass is conserved — that is, it cannot be created or destroyed — within an isolated system. In other words, in a chemical reaction, the mass of the products will always be equal to the mass of the reactants.
