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UN/NA 3090 · Lithium metal batteries (including lithium alloy batteries)
UN/NA 3090 · ERG 2024 · Guide 138
- UN/NA
- 3090
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- ERG 2024
ERG 2024 lists UN/NA 3090 (Lithium metal batteries (including lithium alloy batteries)) under Guide 138, titled “Substances - Water-Reactive (Emitting Flammable Gases)”.
Material name
3090 on a placard, orange panel or shipping paper
It points to the ERG 2024 entry “Lithium metal batteries (including lithium alloy batteries)” and to Guide 138. On a numbered orange panel, 3090 is the lower number (how to read an orange panel).
ERG 2024 markings for 3090
3090 is not highlighted in green (no Table 1 entry), and its guide number 138 has no P.
Entries near 3090
By number (yellow pages): before 3090 come UN/NA 3087 Oxidizing solid, poisonous, n.o.s. (Guide 141); UN/NA 3088 Self-heating solid, organic, n.o.s. (Guide 135) and UN/NA 3089 Metal powder, flammable, n.o.s. (Guide 170); after it, UN/NA 3091 Lithium metal batteries contained in equipment (including lithium alloy batteries) (Guide 138); UN/NA 3092 1-Methoxy-2-propanol (Guide 129) and UN/NA 3093 Corrosive liquid, oxidizing, n.o.s. (Guide 157).
By name (blue pages): “Lithium metal batteries (including lithium alloy batteries)” comes after Lithium ion batteries contained in equipment (including lithium ion polymer batteries) (UN/NA 3481, Guide 147) and Lithium ion batteries packed with equipment (including lithium ion polymer batteries) (UN/NA 3481, Guide 147) and before Lithium metal batteries contained in equipment (including lithium alloy batteries) (UN/NA 3091, Guide 138) and Lithium metal batteries packed with equipment (including lithium alloy batteries) (UN/NA 3091, Guide 138).
Other names starting with “Lithium”: Lithium hydroxide, solution (UN/NA 2679, Guide 154); Lithium hypochlorite, dry (UN/NA 1471, Guide 140); Lithium ion batteries (including lithium ion polymer batteries) (UN/NA 3480, Guide 147); Lithium nitrate (UN/NA 2722, Guide 140); Lithium nitride (UN/NA 2806, Guide 139) and Lithium peroxide (UN/NA 1472, Guide 143).
Guide 138 · Library
Guide 138 covers 74 UN/NA numbers. The 12 around 3090 in the guide’s number order: 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; UN/NA 3091 Lithium metal batteries contained in equipment (including lithium alloy batteries); UN/NA 3094 Corrosive liquid, water-reactive, n.o.s.; UN/NA 3096 Corrosive solid, water-reactive, n.o.s.; UN/NA 3129 Water-reactive liquid, corrosive, n.o.s.; UN/NA 3131 Water-reactive solid, corrosive, n.o.s.; UN/NA 3132 Water-reactive solid, flammable, n.o.s.
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