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UN/NA 1492 · Potassium persulfate
UN/NA 1492 · ERG 2024 · Guide 140
- UN/NA
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- ERG 2024
ERG 2024 lists UN/NA 1492 (Potassium persulfate) under Guide 140, titled “Oxidizers”.
Material name
1492 on a placard, orange panel or shipping paper
It can stand for either of two ERG 2024 entries: “Potassium persulfate” and “Potassium persulphate”. Both use Guide 140, so the number alone is enough to find the guide. On a numbered orange panel, 1492 is the lower number (how to read an orange panel).
ERG 2024 markings for 1492
1492 is not highlighted in green (no Table 1 entry), and its guide number 140 has no P.
Entries near 1492
By number (yellow pages): before 1492 come UN/NA 1489 Potassium perchlorate (Guide 140); UN/NA 1490 Potassium permanganate (Guide 140) and UN/NA 1491 Potassium peroxide (Guide 144); after it, UN/NA 1493 Silver nitrate (Guide 140); UN/NA 1494 Sodium bromate (Guide 140) and UN/NA 1495 Sodium chlorate (Guide 140).
By name (blue pages): “Potassium persulfate” comes after Potassium permanganate (UN/NA 1490, Guide 140) and Potassium peroxide (UN/NA 1491, Guide 144) and before Potassium phosphide (UN/NA 2012, Guide 139) and Potassium sodium alloys, liquid (UN/NA 1422, Guide 138).
By name (blue pages): “Potassium persulphate” comes after Potassium permanganate (UN/NA 1490, Guide 140) and Potassium peroxide (UN/NA 1491, Guide 144) and before Potassium phosphide (UN/NA 2012, Guide 139) and Potassium sodium alloys, liquid (UN/NA 1422, Guide 138).
Other names starting with “Potassium”: Potassium nitrate (UN/NA 1486, Guide 140); Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrite mixture (UN/NA 1487, Guide 140); Potassium nitrite (UN/NA 1488, Guide 140); Potassium sodium alloys, solid (UN/NA 3404, Guide 138); Potassium sulfide, anhydrous (UN/NA 1382, Guide 135) and Potassium sulfide, hydrated, with not less than 30% water of crystallization (UN/NA 1847, Guide 153).
Guide 140 · Library
Guide 140 covers 98 UN/NA numbers. The 12 around 1492 in the guide’s number order: UN/NA 1485 Potassium chlorate; UN/NA 1486 Potassium nitrate; UN/NA 1487 Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrite mixture; UN/NA 1488 Potassium nitrite; UN/NA 1489 Potassium perchlorate; UN/NA 1490 Potassium permanganate; UN/NA 1493 Silver nitrate; UN/NA 1494 Sodium bromate; UN/NA 1495 Sodium chlorate; UN/NA 1498 Sodium nitrate; UN/NA 1499 Sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate mixture; UN/NA 1502 Sodium perchlorate.
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