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oracal
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posted 06-02-2001 07:29 PM
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No body so far has known ! If you could tell me for sure not gueses, what the lab storage codes that you see on megalomanias chemical synthesis section mean . I would be very greatfull .


Lagen
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posted 06-03-2001 08:28 AM
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There is a number of very different systems for marking storage, health and transportation properties of chemicals (pictograms, risk phrases, safety phrases, ADR classification to name a few), among these two color-coding schemes are used frequently: the ChemAlert Label and the SAF-T-DATA Label.

Fisher's ChemAlert Label (as used on Mega's site):
Red Flammable
Blue Health
Yellow Reactivity
White Corrosive
Gray General chemical storage
"S top" Exception--reagent incompatible with other reagents of same
color bar. Store separately.
J.T. Baker's SAF-T-DATA Label is slightly different and a bit more advanced:
Red Flammability hazard: store in a flammable chemical
storage area.
Red stripe Flammability hazard: do not store in same area as
other flammable substances.
Yellow Reactivity Hazard: store separately from other
chemicals.
Yellow stripe Reactivity Hazard: do not store with other yellow
coded chemicals, store separately.
White Contact Hazard: store separately in a corrosion-proof
location.
White stripe Contact Hazard: not compatible with chemicals
in solid white category.
Blue Health Hazard: store in a secure poison area.
Orange Not suitably characterized by any of the
foregoing categories.

Also, according to this system, chemicals should be further arranged into compatible (chemically related) families in storage.



oracal
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posted 06-03-2001 09:30 AM
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Thanks lagen thats all I needed to know .


Lagen
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posted 06-03-2001 10:33 AM
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I had a look at the codes in the synthesis section and I found some green ones too. I am not sure what they mean but it seems that this code has been discontinued. I've looked at many of the green coded chemicals directly on Fisher's site and they all have gray codes now - general storage. Maybe green was used to mark bioreagents or biologically active substances, I dunno. I guess only Fisher or Mega could tell you for sure.
If you wanted to make a bit of research into the subject, here's a couple of links to get you started:
http://keats.admin.virginia.edu/lsm/label.html
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/cis/products/icsc/dtasht /symbols/index.htm
http://www.orcbs.msu.edu/chemical/nfpa/nfpa.html
https://www3.fishersci.com/support/hlth/chemicals.jsp
http://www.electromark.com/Help_Hints/DOT/different_dot_classes.asp
http://www.electromark.com/Help_Hints/RTK/RTK_FAQ_Index.asp
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/safety/riskphrs.htm
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/safety/safephrs.htm
http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg186.htm

This carries a load of safety related links:
http://www.anachem.umu.se/cgi-bin/pointer.exe?Safety

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I would like to add that I use the "green" storage to indicate a safe or non-toxic chemical that is largely unreactive, and I use the gray to indivcate an unknown code.