UN/NA 1897 · Perchloroethylene

Material name

1897 on a placard, orange panel or shipping paper

It can stand for either of two ERG 2024 entries: “Perchloroethylene” and “Tetrachloroethylene”. Both use Guide 160, so the number alone is enough to find the guide. On a numbered orange panel, 1897 is the lower number (how to read an orange panel).

ERG 2024 markings for 1897

1897 is not highlighted in green (no Table 1 entry), and its guide number 160 has no P.

Entries near 1897

By number (yellow pages): before 1897 come UN/NA 1892 Ethyldichloroarsine (Guide 151); UN/NA 1894 Phenylmercuric hydroxide (Guide 151) and UN/NA 1895 Phenylmercuric nitrate (Guide 151); after it, UN/NA 1898 Acetyl iodide (Guide 156); UN/NA 1902 Diisooctyl acid phosphate (Guide 153) and UN/NA 1903 Disinfectant, liquid, corrosive, n.o.s. (Guide 153).

By name (blue pages): “Perchloroethylene” comes after Perchloric acid, with more than 50% but not more than 72% acid (UN/NA 1873, Guide 143) and Perchloric acid, with not more than 50% acid (UN/NA 1802, Guide 157) and before Perchloromethyl mercaptan (UN/NA 1670, Guide 157) and Perchloryl fluoride (UN/NA 3083, Guide 124).

By name (blue pages): “Tetrachloroethylene” comes after tert-Butylcyclohexyl chloroformate (UN/NA 2747, Guide 156) and Tetrabromoethane (UN/NA 2504, Guide 159) and before Tetraethyl dithiopyrophosphate (UN/NA 1704, Guide 153) and Tetraethyl silicate (UN/NA 1292, Guide 129).

Guide 160 · Library

Guide 160 covers 6 UN/NA numbers. The others: UN/NA 1593 Dichloromethane; UN/NA 1710 Trichloroethylene; UN/NA 1887 Bromochloromethane; UN/NA 2664 Dibromomethane; UN/NA 2831 1,1,1-Trichloroethane.

Sources

• PHMSA · ERG 2024 · EN / ES / FR