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UN/NA 1444 · Ammonium persulfate
UN/NA 1444 · ERG 2024 · Guide 140
- UN/NA
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- ERG 2024
ERG 2024 lists UN/NA 1444 (Ammonium persulfate) under Guide 140, titled “Oxidizers”.
Material name
1444 on a placard, orange panel or shipping paper
It can stand for either of two ERG 2024 entries: “Ammonium persulfate” and “Ammonium persulphate”. Both use Guide 140, so the number alone is enough to find the guide. On a numbered orange panel, 1444 is the lower number (how to read an orange panel).
ERG 2024 markings for 1444
1444 is not highlighted in green (no Table 1 entry), and its guide number 140 has no P.
Entries near 1444
By number (yellow pages): before 1444 come UN/NA 1438 Aluminum nitrate (Guide 140); UN/NA 1439 Ammonium dichromate (Guide 141) and UN/NA 1442 Ammonium perchlorate (Guide 143); after it, UN/NA 1445 Barium chlorate, solid (Guide 141); UN/NA 1446 Barium nitrate (Guide 141) and UN/NA 1447 Barium perchlorate, solid (Guide 141).
By name (blue pages): “Ammonium persulfate” comes after Ammonium nitrate, with not more than 0.2% combustible substances (UN/NA 1942, Guide 140) and Ammonium perchlorate (UN/NA 1442, Guide 143) and before Ammonium picrate, wetted with not less than 10% water (UN/NA 1310, Guide 113) and Ammonium polysulfide, solution (UN/NA 2818, Guide 154).
By name (blue pages): “Ammonium persulphate” comes after Ammonium nitrate, with not more than 0.2% combustible substances (UN/NA 1942, Guide 140) and Ammonium perchlorate (UN/NA 1442, Guide 143) and before Ammonium picrate, wetted with not less than 10% water (UN/NA 1310, Guide 113) and Ammonium polysulfide, solution (UN/NA 2818, Guide 154).
Other names starting with “Ammonium”: Ammonium nitrate based fertilizer (UN/NA 2071, Guide 140); Ammonium nitrate suspension (UN/NA 3375, Guide 140); Ammonium nitrate, liquid (hot concentrated solution) (UN/NA 2426, Guide 140); Ammonium polyvanadate (UN/NA 2861, Guide 151); Ammonium silicofluoride (UN/NA 2854, Guide 151) and Ammonium sulfide, solution (UN/NA 2683, Guide 132).
Guide 140 · Library
Guide 140 covers 98 UN/NA numbers. The 12 around 1444 in the guide’s number order: UN/NA 1438 Aluminum nitrate; UN/NA 1450 Bromates, inorganic, n.o.s.; UN/NA 1451 Caesium nitrate; UN/NA 1452 Calcium chlorate; UN/NA 1453 Calcium chlorite; UN/NA 1454 Calcium nitrate; UN/NA 1455 Calcium perchlorate; UN/NA 3407 Chlorate and magnesium chloride mixture, solution; UN/NA 3485 Calcium hypochlorite, dry, corrosive, with more than 39% available chlorine (8.8% available oxygen); UN/NA 3486 Calcium hypochlorite mixture, dry, corrosive, with more than 10% but not more than 39% available chlorine; UN/NA 3487 Calcium hypochlorite, hydrated, corrosive, with not less than 5.5% but not more than 16% water; UN/NA 3544 Articles containing oxidizing substance, n.o.s.
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