Arson & Explosives

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Across
  1. 2. Heat energy is released
  2. 4. Very rapid oxidation that produces heat, light, and subsonic pressure waves
  3. 6. A fire caused by a natural heat-producing process in the presence of sufficient air and fuel
  4. 9. Pattern indicating that a fire burned normally without the use of an accelerant
  5. 10. Primary explosives are used to detonate other explosives through a chain reaction
  6. 13. The lowest temperature to which a substance must be heated for the substance to give off vapors which burns when exposed to an ignition source
  7. 14. Produced when a substance undergoes rapid oxidation involving heat and light
  8. 15. Needed to break a bond and is released when bonds are formed
  9. 16. Substances like gasoline or alcohol that speed up the burning process
  10. 19. Where the fire started
Down
  1. 1. Occur when heavy furniture shields part of a wall
  2. 3. minimum temperature at which a fuel will spontaneously ignite
  3. 5. A fire started deliberately
  4. 7. Combination of oxygen with other substances to produce new substances
  5. 8. Noticeable patterns created by the fire
  6. 11. Low explosive that uses charcoal and are used in guns or mining
  7. 12. Highly sensitive portable vapor detector
  8. 13. Shows the four components needed to produce and sustain a fire
  9. 17. Product as combustion accompanied by the creation of gases and heat
  10. 18. High explosive that utilizes nitroglycerin- where the O2 and fuel component are combined in one molecule