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"Dangerous goods" (also known as "hazardous materials" or "HAZMAT" in the United States) may be a pure chemical substance (e.g. TNT, nitroglycerin), mixtures (e.g. dynamite, gunpowder) or manufactured articles (e.g. ammunition, fireworks). The transport hazards that they pose are grouped into nine classes, which may be subdivided into divisions ...
Series 5 tests are used to determine if an article can be assigned to HD1.5 'Very Insensitive Explosive'; series 6 tests are used to determine the classification of an article within Hazard Divisions 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, or 1.4; and series 7 tests are used to determine if an article can be assigned to HD 1.6 as an article containing predominantly ...
UN Number Class Proper Shipping Name UN 2701 to 2702? (UN No.s no longer in use) UN 2703? (UN No. no longer in use) Isopropyl mercaptan (UN No. no longer in use) [1] UN 2704? (UN No. no longer in use) Propyl mercaptan (UN No. no longer in use) [1]
Each person who offers transportation of hazardous materials must describe the material on accompanied shipping papers. The papers must include— an identification number; a proper shipping name, identified in the Hazardous Materials Table; the hazard class; the packing group, identified in Roman numerals; the total quantity of hazardous materials
The NA numbers (North American Numbers are assigned by the United States Department of Transportation, supplementing the larger set of UN numbers, for identifying hazardous materials. NA numbers largely duplicate UN numbers, however a selection of additional numbers are provided for materials that are not covered by UN numbers as a hazardous ...
The Office of Hazardous Materials Safety is responsible for the oversight of the safe transportation of hazardous materials by air, rail, highway, and vessel. More than 3.3 billion tons of hazardous materials valued at more than $1.9 trillion are transported annually by air, highway, rail, and vessel across the United States.
US Army trucks laden with ammunition, displaying a Class 1.1D Explosives placard on the front.. Hazmat Class 1 are explosive materials which are any substance or article, including a device, which is designed to function by explosion or which, by chemical reaction within itself is able to function in a similar manner even if not designed to function by explosion.
4.1: Zirconium, dry, coiled wire, finished metal sheets, strip (thinner than 254 micrometres but not thinner than 18 micrometres) UN 2859: 6.1: Ammonium metavanadate: UN 2860: 6.1 (UN No. no longer in use) Vanadium trioxide (UN No. no longer in use) [2] [3] UN 2861: 6.1: Ammonium polyvanadate: UN 2862: 6.1: Vanadium pentoxide, nonfused form UN ...