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Ammonia Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 37
(1990)
Ammonia is a colourless acrid-smelling gas at room temperature and normal atmospheric pressure. Most people can identify its odour at 35 mg/rn3 in air. It can be stored and transported as a liquid at a pressure of 10 ...
Quintozene Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide No. 23
(1989)
Quintozene is a pale yellow-to-white (depending on the purity) solid with a musty odour and a melting point of 142-146 C. It is soluble in carbon disulfide, benzene, chloroform, ketones, and aromatic and chlorinated ...
Hydrazine Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 56
(1991)
Anhydrous hydrazine, and aqueous solutions, are colourless liquids. Anhydrous hydrazine is a caustic, fuming, hygroscopic liquid at normal temperature and pressure. It has an ammoniacal, fishy, and pungent odour. The odour ...
Methanol Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 105
(1997)
Methanol is a colourless, polar, volatile, flammable liquid with a mild alcoholic odour when pure. It decomposes on heating producing carbon monoxide and formaldehyde. Methanol reacts violently with oxidizing materials ...
Methyl Isobutyl Ketone Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 58
(1991)
MIBK is a clear liquid with a sweet odour; the odour threshold is 1.64 mg/m3 (0.4 ppm). It is moderately soluble in water. MIBK can react violently with oxidizing and reducing agents. When heated, peroxides may form by ...
1,2-Dichloroethane Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 55
(1991)
1,2-Dichioroethane is a colourless liquid, with a sweet taste aid a chloroform-like odour. Reportd odour thresholds are 25-450 mg/ni for perception and 162-750 mg/rn for recognition. 1,2-Dichiorethane is a volatile and ...
Dichlorvos Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide No. 18
(1988)
Technical dichlorvos is a colourless to amber liquid with a mild chemical odour. It is hydrolysed by water at a rate of 3% per day at room temperature. It is corrosive to iron and mild steel.The purpose of a Health and ...
Formaldehyde Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 57
(1991)
Formaldehyde is a flammable, colourless, reactive, and readily polymerized gas at normal temperature and pressure. The heat of combustion for formaldehyde gas is 4.47 kcal/g. It forms explosive mixtures with air and oxygen ...
Dimethylformamide (Dmf) - Health and Safety Guide 43
(1990)
Dimethylformamide (DMF) is a colourless liquid with only a slight, unpleasant odour; smell is, therefore, not a useful warning signal. DMF is usually stable but, when it comes into contact with strong oxidizers, halogens, ...
Brodifacoum Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 93
(1995)
Brodifacoum is an off-white powder, which is stable in the solid form. Its solubility in water is very low (less than 10 mg/litre at 20 °C and pH 7); it is slightly soluble in benzene and soluble in acetone.