WHMIS (Ethylene glycol dinitrate)

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Acute toxicity - oral - Category 41

• Physical hazards not otherwise classified (exploding bomb) - Category 12 3

Danger

Harmful if swallowed (H302)
May cause an explosion under conditions of schock and/or friction

Ingredient disclosure

Comments2 3 : A thermally unstable substance liable to undergo a strongly exothermic decomposition. Laboratory testing performed on the substance as packaged is nescessary to determine the category (Type A to G) of this hazard class.

References

• ▲1.  Bingham, E., Cohrssen, B. et Powell, C.H., Patty's toxicology. A Wiley-Interscience publication. New York (Toronto) : John Wiley. (2001-). [RM-214008]   http://www3.interscience.wiley.com (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/104554795/HOME)
• ▲2.  Pohanish, R.P. et Greene, S.A., Wiley guide to chemical incompatibilities. 3ème éd. New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc. (2009). [RR-015033]   www.wiley.com
• ▲3.  Pohanish, R.P., Sittig's handbook of toxic and hazardous chemicals and carcinogens. 6th ed. Amsterdam : William Andrew. (2012). [RR-015003]   https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9781437778694/sittigs-handbook-of-toxic-and-hazardous-chemicals-and-carcinogens

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