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UN/NA 1575 · Calcium cyanide

UN/NA 1575 · ERG 2024 · Guide 157

UN/NA
1575
Edition
ERG 2024

ERG 2024 lists UN/NA 1575 (Calcium cyanide) under Guide 157, titled “Substances - Toxic and/or Corrosive (Non-Combustible/Water-Sensitive)”.

Material name

LanguageMaterial nameGuides
ENCalcium cyanideGuide 157
ESCianuro de calcioGuide 157
FRCyanure de calciumGuide 157

1575 on a placard, orange panel or shipping paper

It points to the ERG 2024 entry “Calcium cyanide” and to Guide 157. On a numbered orange panel, 1575 is the lower number (how to read an orange panel).

ERG 2024 markings for 1575

1575 is not highlighted in green (no Table 1 entry), and its guide number 157 has no P.

Entries near 1575

By number (yellow pages): before 1575 come UN/NA 1572 Cacodylic acid (Guide 151); UN/NA 1573 Calcium arsenate (Guide 151) and UN/NA 1574 Calcium arsenate and calcium arsenite mixture, solid (Guide 151); after it, UN/NA 1577 Chlorodinitrobenzenes, liquid (Guide 153); UN/NA 1578 Chloronitrobenzenes, solid (Guide 152) and UN/NA 1579 4-Chloro-o-toluidine hydrochloride, solid (Guide 153).

By name (blue pages): “Calcium cyanide” comes after Calcium chlorite (UN/NA 1453, Guide 140) and Calcium cyanamide, with more than 0.1% calcium carbide (UN/NA 1403, Guide 138) and before Calcium dithionite (UN/NA 1923, Guide 135) and Calcium hydride (UN/NA 1404, Guide 138).

Other names starting with “Calcium”: Calcium carbide (UN/NA 1402, Guide 138); Calcium chlorate (UN/NA 1452, Guide 140); Calcium chlorate, aqueous solution (UN/NA 2429, Guide 140); Calcium hypochlorite mixture, dry, corrosive, with more than 10% but not more than 39% available chlorine (UN/NA 3486, Guide 140); Calcium hypochlorite mixture, dry, corrosive, with more than 39% available chlorine (8.8% available oxygen) (UN/NA 3485, Guide 140) and Calcium hypochlorite mixture, dry, with more than 10% but not more than 39% available chlorine (UN/NA 2208, Guide 140).

Guide 157 · Library

Guide 157 covers 58 UN/NA numbers. The 12 around 1575 in the guide’s number order: UN/NA 1549 Antimony compound, inorganic, solid, n.o.s.; UN/NA 1560 Arsenic chloride; UN/NA 1565 Barium cyanide; UN/NA 1588 Cyanides, inorganic, solid, n.o.s.; UN/NA 1626 Mercuric potassium cyanide; UN/NA 1670 Perchloromethyl mercaptan; UN/NA 1679 Potassium cuprocyanide; UN/NA 1680 Potassium cyanide, solid; UN/NA 1689 Sodium cyanide, solid; UN/NA 3420 Boron trifluoride propionic acid complex, solid; UN/NA 3456 Nitrosylsulfuric acid, solid; UN/NA 3498 Iodine monochloride, liquid.

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