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UN/NA 1039 · Ethyl methyl ether
UN/NA 1039 · ERG 2024 · Guide 115
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- ERG 2024
ERG 2024 lists UN/NA 1039 (Ethyl methyl ether) under Guide 115, titled “Gases - Flammable (Including Refrigerated Liquids)”.
Material name
1039 on a placard, orange panel or shipping paper
It can stand for either of two ERG 2024 entries: “Ethyl methyl ether” and “Methyl ethyl ether”. Both use Guide 115, so the number alone is enough to find the guide. On a numbered orange panel, 1039 is the lower number (how to read an orange panel).
ERG 2024 markings for 1039
1039 is not highlighted in green (no Table 1 entry), and its guide number 115 has no P.
Entries near 1039
By number (yellow pages): before 1039 come UN/NA 1036 Ethylamine (Guide 118); UN/NA 1037 Ethyl chloride (Guide 115) and UN/NA 1038 Ethylene, refrigerated liquid (cryogenic liquid) (Guide 115); after it, UN/NA 1040 Ethylene oxide (Guide 119P); UN/NA 1041 Ethylene oxide and carbon dioxide mixture, with more than 9% but not more than 87% ethylene oxide (Guide 115) and UN/NA 1043 Fertilizer, ammoniating solution, with free ammonia (Guide 125).
By name (blue pages): “Ethyl methyl ether” comes after Ethyl mercaptan (UN/NA 2363, Guide 129) and Ethyl methacrylate, stabilized (UN/NA 2277, Guide 130P) and before Ethyl methyl ketone (UN/NA 1193, Guide 127) and Ethyl nitrite, solution (UN/NA 1194, Guide 131).
By name (blue pages): “Methyl ethyl ether” comes after Methyl chloromethyl ether (UN/NA 1239, Guide 131) and Methyl dichloroacetate (UN/NA 2299, Guide 156) and before Methyl ethyl ketone (UN/NA 1193, Guide 127) and Methyl fluoride (UN/NA 2454, Guide 115).
Other names starting with “Ethyl”: Ethyl isobutyrate (UN/NA 2385, Guide 129); Ethyl isocyanate (UN/NA 2481, Guide 155); Ethyl lactate (UN/NA 1192, Guide 129); Ethyl orthoformate (UN/NA 2524, Guide 129); Ethyl oxalate (UN/NA 2525, Guide 156) and Ethyl phosphonothioic dichloride, anhydrous (UN/NA 2927, Guide 154).
Other names starting with “Methyl”: Methyl chloride and methylene chloride mixture (UN/NA 1912, Guide 115); Methyl chloroacetate (UN/NA 2295, Guide 131); Methyl chloroformate (UN/NA 1238, Guide 155); Methyl formate (UN/NA 1243, Guide 129); Methyl iodide (UN/NA 2644, Guide 151) and Methyl isobutyl carbinol (UN/NA 2053, Guide 129).
Guide 115 · Library
Guide 115 covers 52 UN/NA numbers. The 12 around 1039 in the guide’s number order: UN/NA 1027 Cyclopropane; UN/NA 1030 1,1-Difluoroethane; UN/NA 1033 Dimethyl ether; UN/NA 1035 Ethane; UN/NA 1037 Ethyl chloride; UN/NA 1038 Ethylene, refrigerated liquid (cryogenic liquid); UN/NA 1041 Ethylene oxide and carbon dioxide mixture, with more than 9% but not more than 87% ethylene oxide; UN/NA 1049 Hydrogen, compressed; UN/NA 1055 Isobutylene; UN/NA 1057 Lighter refills containing flammable gas; UN/NA 1063 Methyl chloride; UN/NA 1075 Butane.
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