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UN/NA 1402 · Calcium carbide
UN/NA 1402 · ERG 2024 · Guide 138
- UN/NA
- 1402
- Edition
- ERG 2024
ERG 2024 lists UN/NA 1402 (Calcium carbide) under Guide 138, titled “Substances - Water-Reactive (Emitting Flammable Gases)”.
Material name
1402 on a placard, orange panel or shipping paper
It points to the ERG 2024 entry “Calcium carbide” and to Guide 138. On a numbered orange panel, 1402 is the lower number (how to read an orange panel).
ERG 2024 markings for 1402
1402 is not highlighted in green (no Table 1 entry), and its guide number 138 has no P.
Entries near 1402
By number (yellow pages): before 1402 come UN/NA 1398 Aluminum silicon powder, uncoated (Guide 138); UN/NA 1400 Barium (Guide 138) and UN/NA 1401 Calcium (Guide 138); after it, UN/NA 1403 Calcium cyanamide, with more than 0.1% calcium carbide (Guide 138); UN/NA 1404 Calcium hydride (Guide 138) and UN/NA 1405 Calcium silicide (Guide 138).
By name (blue pages): “Calcium carbide” comes after Calcium arsenate (UN/NA 1573, Guide 151) and Calcium arsenate and calcium arsenite mixture, solid (UN/NA 1574, Guide 151) and before Calcium chlorate (UN/NA 1452, Guide 140) and Calcium chlorate, aqueous solution (UN/NA 2429, Guide 140).
Other names starting with “Calcium”: Calcium alloys, pyrophoric (UN/NA 1855, Guide 135); Calcium chlorite (UN/NA 1453, Guide 140); Calcium cyanide (UN/NA 1575, Guide 157); Calcium dithionite (UN/NA 1923, Guide 135); Calcium hypochlorite mixture, dry, corrosive, with more than 10% but not more than 39% available chlorine (UN/NA 3486, Guide 140) and Calcium hypochlorite mixture, dry, corrosive, with more than 39% available chlorine (8.8% available oxygen) (UN/NA 3485, Guide 140).
Guide 138 · Library
Guide 138 covers 74 UN/NA numbers. The 12 around 1402 in the guide’s number order: UN/NA 1393 Alkaline earth metal alloy, n.o.s.; UN/NA 1394 Aluminum carbide; UN/NA 1396 Aluminum powder, uncoated; UN/NA 1398 Aluminum silicon powder, uncoated; UN/NA 1400 Barium; UN/NA 1401 Calcium; UN/NA 1403 Calcium cyanamide, with more than 0.1% calcium carbide; UN/NA 1404 Calcium hydride; UN/NA 1405 Calcium silicide; UN/NA 1407 Caesium; UN/NA 1409 Metal hydrides, water-reactive, n.o.s.; UN/NA 1410 Lithium aluminum hydride.
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