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UN/NA 1338 · Phosphorus, amorphous
UN/NA 1338 · ERG 2024 · Guide 133
- UN/NA
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- ERG 2024
ERG 2024 lists UN/NA 1338 (Phosphorus, amorphous) under Guide 133, titled “Flammable Solids”.
Material name
1338 on a placard, orange panel or shipping paper
It can stand for either of two ERG 2024 entries: “Phosphorus, amorphous” and “Red phosphorus”. Both use Guide 133, so the number alone is enough to find the guide. On a numbered orange panel, 1338 is the lower number (how to read an orange panel).
ERG 2024 markings for 1338
1338 is not highlighted in green (no Table 1 entry), and its guide number 133 has no P.
Entries near 1338
By number (yellow pages): before 1338 come UN/NA 1334 Naphthalene, crude (Guide 133); UN/NA 1336 Nitroguanidine, wetted with not less than 20% water (Guide 113) and UN/NA 1337 Nitrostarch, wetted with not less than 20% water (Guide 113); after it, UN/NA 1339 Phosphorus heptasulfide, free from yellow and white phosphorus (Guide 139); UN/NA 1340 Phosphorus pentasulfide, free from yellow and white phosphorus (Guide 139) and UN/NA 1341 Phosphorus sesquisulfide, free from yellow and white phosphorus (Guide 139).
By name (blue pages): “Phosphorus, amorphous” comes after Phosphorus trisulfide, free from yellow and white phosphorus (UN/NA 1343, Guide 139) and Phosphorus trisulphide, free from yellow and white phosphorus (UN/NA 1343, Guide 139) and before Phosphorus, white, dry or under water or in solution (UN/NA 1381, Guide 136) and Phosphorus, white, molten (UN/NA 2447, Guide 136).
By name (blue pages): “Red phosphorus” comes after Rags, oily (UN/NA 1856, Guide 133) and Receptacles, small, containing gas (UN/NA 2037, Guide 115) and before Refrigerant gas R-12 (UN/NA 1028, Guide 126) and Refrigerant gas R-12B1 (UN/NA 1974, Guide 126).
Other names starting with “Phosphorus”: Phosphorus pentafluoride, adsorbed (UN/NA 3524, Guide 173); Phosphorus pentafluoride, compressed (UN/NA 2198, Guide 125); Phosphorus pentoxide (UN/NA 1807, Guide 137); Phosphorus tribromide (UN/NA 1808, Guide 137); Phosphorus trichloride (UN/NA 1809, Guide 137) and Phosphorus trioxide (UN/NA 2578, Guide 157).
Guide 133 · Library
Guide 133 covers 54 UN/NA numbers. The 12 around 1338 in the guide’s number order: UN/NA 1327 Bhusa, wet, damp or contaminated with oil; UN/NA 1328 Hexamethylenetetramine; UN/NA 1330 Manganese resinate; UN/NA 1331 Matches, “strike anywhere”; UN/NA 1332 Metaldehyde; UN/NA 1334 Naphthalene, crude; UN/NA 1345 Rubber scrap, powdered or granulated; UN/NA 1350 Sulfur; UN/NA 1353 Fabrics impregnated with weakly nitrated nitrocellulose, n.o.s.; UN/NA 1361 Carbon, animal or vegetable origin; UN/NA 1362 Carbon, activated; UN/NA 1364 Cotton waste, oily.
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