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UN/NA 2624 · Magnesium silicide
UN/NA 2624 · ERG 2024 · Guide 138
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- ERG 2024
ERG 2024 lists UN/NA 2624 (Magnesium silicide) under Guide 138, titled “Substances - Water-Reactive (Emitting Flammable Gases)”.
Material name
2624 on a placard, orange panel or shipping paper
It points to the ERG 2024 entry “Magnesium silicide” and to Guide 138. On a numbered orange panel, 2624 is the lower number (how to read an orange panel).
ERG 2024 markings for 2624
2624 is not highlighted in green (no Table 1 entry), and its guide number 138 has no P.
Entries near 2624
By number (yellow pages): before 2624 come UN/NA 2621 Acetyl methyl carbinol (Guide 127); UN/NA 2622 Glycidaldehyde (Guide 131P) and UN/NA 2623 Firelighters, solid, with flammable liquid (Guide 133); after it, UN/NA 2626 Chloric acid, aqueous solution, with not more than 10% chloric acid (Guide 140); UN/NA 2627 Nitrites, inorganic, n.o.s. (Guide 140) and UN/NA 2628 Potassium fluoroacetate (Guide 151).
By name (blue pages): “Magnesium silicide” comes after Magnesium phosphide (UN/NA 2011, Guide 139) and Magnesium powder (UN/NA 1418, Guide 138) and before Magnesium, in pellets, turnings or ribbons (UN/NA 1869, Guide 138) and Magnetized material (UN/NA 2807, Guide 171).
Other names starting with “Magnesium”: Magnesium fluorosilicate (UN/NA 2853, Guide 151); Magnesium granules, coated (UN/NA 2950, Guide 138); Magnesium hydride (UN/NA 2010, Guide 138); Magnesium nitrate (UN/NA 1474, Guide 140); Magnesium perchlorate (UN/NA 1475, Guide 140) and Magnesium peroxide (UN/NA 1476, Guide 140).
Guide 138 · Library
Guide 138 covers 74 UN/NA numbers. The 12 around 2624 in the guide’s number order: UN/NA 1869 Magnesium; UN/NA 1870 Potassium borohydride; 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 2805 Lithium hydride, fused solid; UN/NA 2813 Water-reactive solid, n.o.s.; UN/NA 2835 Sodium aluminum hydride; UN/NA 2844 Calcium manganese silicon; UN/NA 2950 Magnesium granules, coated; UN/NA 3078 Cerium, turnings or gritty powder.
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