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Los Alfaques disaster, the Glossary

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The Los Alfaques disaster was caused by the explosion of a road tanker near a holiday campsite on 11 July 1978 in Alcanar, Spain.^[1]

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ABC (newspaper)

ABC is a Spanish national daily newspaper.

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Alcanar

Alcanar is a Spanish municipality of the Catalan comarca of Montsià, in the Tarragona province.

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Ammonia

Ammonia is an inorganic chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula.

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Amposta

Amposta is the capital of the comarca of Montsià, in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, 190 km south of Barcelona on the Mediterranean Coast.

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.

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Autopista AP-7

The Autopista AP-7 (also called Autopista del Mediterráneo) (Autopista de la Mediterrània) is a Spanish autopista (controlled-access highway).

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Bilbao

Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the province of Biscay and in the Basque Country as a whole.

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Blast wave

In fluid dynamics, a blast wave is the increased pressure and flow resulting from the deposition of a large amount of energy in a small, very localised volume.

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Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion

A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) is an explosion caused by the rupture of a vessel containing a pressurized liquid that is or has reached a temperature sufficiently higher than its boiling point at atmospheric pressure.

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Burn

A burn is an injury to skin, or other tissues, caused by heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, friction, or ultraviolet radiation (such as sunburn).

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Butterworth-Heinemann

Butterworth–Heinemann is a British publishing company specialised in professional information and learning materials for higher education and professional training, in printed and electronic forms.

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Catalan language

Catalan (or; autonym: català), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as Valencian (autonym: valencià), is a Western Romance language.

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Catalonia

Catalonia (Catalunya; Cataluña; Catalonha) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.

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Córdoba (newspaper)

Córdoba, sometimes called Diario Córdoba, is a Spanish language newspaper from the city of Córdoba and is the major source of news from the province.

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Civil Guard (Spain)

The Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) is one of the two national law enforcement agencies of Spain.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Criminal negligence

In criminal law, criminal negligence is an offence that involves a breach of an objective standard of behaviour expected of a defendant.

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Dangerous goods

Dangerous goods (DG), are substances that when transported are a risk to health, safety, property or the environment.

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.

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El Mundo (Spain)

(), before, is the second largest printed daily newspaper in Spain.

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Flash fire

A flash fire is a sudden, intense fire caused by ignition of a mixture of air and a dispersed flammable substance such as a solid (including dust), flammable or combustible liquid (such as an aerosol or fine mist), or a flammable gas.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Fruehauf Trailer Corporation

Fruehauf Trailer Corporation, previously Fruehauf Trailer Company (1918–1963) and Fruehauf Corporation (1963–1989), was an American company engaged in the manufacture and sale of truck trailers, and other machinery and equipment, with headquarters located in Detroit, Michigan.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Google Search

Google Search (also known simply as Google or Google.com) is a search engine operated by Google.

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Journal of Hazardous Materials

The Journal of Hazardous Materials is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that covers the study of hazardous materials and their impact on the environment.

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La Pobla de Mafumet

paren) is a small town in the comarca of the Tarragonès, in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia Autonomous Community, Spain.

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La Ràpita

La Ràpita is a town in the area of the Montsià in Catalonia, Spain.

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List of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions

The following is a list of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) accidents. Los Alfaques disaster and list of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions are gas explosions.

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List of tank truck explosions

This is a list of tank truck explosions. Los Alfaques disaster and list of tank truck explosions are tank truck explosions.

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List of transportation fires

This is a list of transportation fires where a ship or other transportation has caught on fire.

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N-340 road (Spain)

The N-340 is a major highway in Spain.

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National Board of Health and Welfare (Sweden)

The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) is a Swedish government agency.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Nightclub

A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment.

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Oil refinery

An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha.

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Pegaso

Pegaso ("Pegasus") was a Spanish manufacturer of trucks, buses, tractors, armored vehicles, and, for a while, to train apprentices, and have a good brand image, some sports cars.

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Peter Keglevic

Peter Keglevic (born 1950) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter.

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Polytechnic University of Catalonia

The Technical University of Catalonia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya,, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña; UPC), currently referred to as BarcelonaTech, is the largest polytechnic university in Catalonia, Spain.

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Propylene

Propylene, also known as propene, is an unsaturated organic compound with the chemical formula.

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Province of Tarragona

Tarragona is a province of eastern Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Catalonia.

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Puertollano

Puertollano is a municipality of Spain located in the province of Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha.

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Relief valve

A relief valve or pressure relief valve (PRV) is a type of safety valve used to control or limit the pressure in a system; excessive pressure might otherwise build up and create a process upset, instrument or equipment failure, explosion, or fire.

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Repsol

Repsol S.A., El Nuevo Herald, 2012-05-31Originally an initialism for Refinería de Petróleos de Escombreras adding the word Sol (Sun) is a Spanish multinational energy and petrochemical company based in Madrid.

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Right to be forgotten

The right to be forgotten (RTBF) is the right to have private information about a person be removed from Internet searches and other directories in some circumstances.

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Semi-trailer

A semi-trailer is a trailer without a front axle.

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Shell plc

Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Shock (circulatory)

Shock is the state of insufficient blood flow to the tissues of the body as a result of problems with the circulatory system.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Tank truck

A tank truck, gas truck, fuel truck, or tanker truck (American English) or tanker (British English) is a motor vehicle designed to carry liquids or gases on roads.

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Tarragona

Tarragona (Tarraco) is a coastal city and municipality in Catalonia (Spain).

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Thermal radiation

Thermal radiation is electromagnetic radiation emitted by the thermal motion of particles in matter.

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Tortosa

Tortosa is the capital of the comarca of Baix Ebre, in Catalonia, Spain.

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Tractor unit

A tractor unit, also known as a truck unit, lorry unit, power unit, prime mover, ten-wheeler, semi-tractor, semi-truck, semi-lorry, tractor cab, truck cab, lorry cab, big rig tractor, big rig truck or big rig lorry or simply a tractor, truck, lorry, semi, big rig or rig, is a characteristically heavy-duty towing engine that provides motive power for hauling a towed or trailered load.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alfaques_disaster

Also known as Alfaques Disaster.

, Spain, Spanish language, Tank truck, Tarragona, Thermal radiation, Tortosa, Tractor unit, Ullage, Valencia, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital.

Los Alfaques disaster, the Glossary

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See also

1978 crimes in Spain

1978 disasters in Spain

1978 in Spain

1978 road incidents

Explosions in Spain

Fires in Spain

July 1978 events in Europe

Man-made disasters in Spain

Road incidents in Spain

Tank truck explosions

Transport disasters in 1978

References