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UN/NA 1870 · Potassium borohydride
UN/NA 1870 · ERG 2024 · Guide 138
- UN/NA
- 1870
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- ERG 2024
ERG 2024 lists UN/NA 1870 (Potassium borohydride) under Guide 138, titled “Substances - Water-Reactive (Emitting Flammable Gases)”.
Material name
1870 on a placard, orange panel or shipping paper
It points to the ERG 2024 entry “Potassium borohydride” and to Guide 138. On a numbered orange panel, 1870 is the lower number (how to read an orange panel).
ERG 2024 markings for 1870
1870 is not highlighted in green (no Table 1 entry), and its guide number 138 has no P.
Entries near 1870
By number (yellow pages): before 1870 come UN/NA 1866 Resin solution (Guide 128); UN/NA 1868 Decaborane (Guide 134) and UN/NA 1869 Magnesium (Guide 138); after it, UN/NA 1871 Titanium hydride (Guide 170); UN/NA 1872 Lead dioxide (Guide 140) and UN/NA 1873 Perchloric acid, with more than 50% but not more than 72% acid (Guide 143).
By name (blue pages): “Potassium borohydride” comes after Potassium arsenate (UN/NA 1677, Guide 151) and Potassium arsenite (UN/NA 1678, Guide 154) and before Potassium bromate (UN/NA 1484, Guide 140) and Potassium chlorate (UN/NA 1485, Guide 140).
Other names starting with “Potassium”: Potassium (UN/NA 2257, Guide 138); Potassium chlorate, aqueous solution (UN/NA 2427, Guide 140); Potassium cuprocyanide (UN/NA 1679, Guide 157); Potassium cyanide, solid (UN/NA 1680, Guide 157); Potassium cyanide, solution (UN/NA 3413, Guide 157) and Potassium dithionite (UN/NA 1929, Guide 135).
Guide 138 · Library
Guide 138 covers 74 UN/NA numbers. The 12 around 1870 in the guide’s number order: UN/NA 1428 Sodium; UN/NA 1431 Sodium methylate, dry; UN/NA 1435 Zinc ashes; UN/NA 1436 Zinc dust; UN/NA 1437 Zirconium hydride; UN/NA 1869 Magnesium; UN/NA 1928 Methyl magnesium bromide in ethyl ether; UN/NA 2010 Magnesium hydride; UN/NA 2257 Potassium; UN/NA 2463 Aluminum hydride; UN/NA 2624 Magnesium silicide; UN/NA 2805 Lithium hydride, fused solid.
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