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UN/NA 1700 · Tear gas candles
UN/NA 1700 · ERG 2024 · Guide 159
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- ERG 2024
ERG 2024 lists UN/NA 1700 (Tear gas candles) under Guide 159, titled “Substances (Irritating)”.
Material name
1700 on a placard, orange panel or shipping paper
It can stand for either of two ERG 2024 entries: “Tear gas candles” and “Tear gas grenades”. Both use Guide 159, so the number alone is enough to find the guide. On a numbered orange panel, 1700 is the lower number (how to read an orange panel).
ERG 2024 markings for 1700
1700 is not highlighted in green (no Table 1 entry), and its guide number 159 has no P.
Entries near 1700
By number (yellow pages): before 1700 come UN/NA 1697 Chloroacetophenone, solid (Guide 153); UN/NA 1698 Diphenylamine chloroarsine (Guide 154) and UN/NA 1699 Diphenylchloroarsine, liquid (Guide 151); after it, UN/NA 1701 Xylyl bromide, liquid (Guide 152); UN/NA 1702 1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane (Guide 151) and UN/NA 1704 Tetraethyl dithiopyrophosphate (Guide 153).
By name (blue pages): “Tear gas candles” comes after Sulphuryl fluoride (UN/NA 2191, Guide 123) and Tars, liquid (UN/NA 1999, Guide 130) and before Tear gas devices (UN/NA 1693, Guide 159) and Tear gas substance, liquid, n.o.s. (UN/NA 1693, Guide 159).
By name (blue pages): “Tear gas grenades” comes after Tars, liquid (UN/NA 1999, Guide 130) and Tear gas devices (UN/NA 1693, Guide 159) and before Tear gas substance, liquid, n.o.s. (UN/NA 1693, Guide 159) and Tear gas substance, solid, n.o.s. (UN/NA 3448, Guide 159).
Guide 159 · Library
Guide 159 covers 10 UN/NA numbers. The others: UN/NA 1693 Tear gas devices; UN/NA 1694 Bromobenzyl cyanides, liquid; UN/NA 2017 Ammunition, tear-producing, non-explosive; UN/NA 2504 Acetylene tetrabromide; UN/NA 2515 Bromoform; UN/NA 2688 1-Bromo-3-chloropropane; UN/NA 2872 Dibromochloropropanes; UN/NA 3448 Tear gas substance, solid, n.o.s.; UN/NA 3449 Bromobenzyl cyanides, solid.
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