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EC number: 203-606-5 | CAS number: 108-68-9
- Life Cycle description
- Uses advised against
- Endpoint summary
- Appearance / physical state / colour
- Melting point / freezing point
- Boiling point
- Density
- Particle size distribution (Granulometry)
- Vapour pressure
- Partition coefficient
- Water solubility
- Solubility in organic solvents / fat solubility
- Surface tension
- Flash point
- Auto flammability
- Flammability
- Explosiveness
- Oxidising properties
- Oxidation reduction potential
- Stability in organic solvents and identity of relevant degradation products
- Storage stability and reactivity towards container material
- Stability: thermal, sunlight, metals
- pH
- Dissociation constant
- Viscosity
- Additional physico-chemical information
- Additional physico-chemical properties of nanomaterials
- Nanomaterial agglomeration / aggregation
- Nanomaterial crystalline phase
- Nanomaterial crystallite and grain size
- Nanomaterial aspect ratio / shape
- Nanomaterial specific surface area
- Nanomaterial Zeta potential
- Nanomaterial surface chemistry
- Nanomaterial dustiness
- Nanomaterial porosity
- Nanomaterial pour density
- Nanomaterial photocatalytic activity
- Nanomaterial radical formation potential
- Nanomaterial catalytic activity
- Endpoint summary
- Stability
- Biodegradation
- Bioaccumulation
- Transport and distribution
- Environmental data
- Additional information on environmental fate and behaviour
- Ecotoxicological Summary
- Aquatic toxicity
- Endpoint summary
- Short-term toxicity to fish
- Long-term toxicity to fish
- Short-term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates
- Long-term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates
- Toxicity to aquatic algae and cyanobacteria
- Toxicity to aquatic plants other than algae
- Toxicity to microorganisms
- Endocrine disrupter testing in aquatic vertebrates – in vivo
- Toxicity to other aquatic organisms
- Sediment toxicity
- Terrestrial toxicity
- Biological effects monitoring
- Biotransformation and kinetics
- Additional ecotoxological information
- Toxicological Summary
- Toxicokinetics, metabolism and distribution
- Acute Toxicity
- Irritation / corrosion
- Sensitisation
- Repeated dose toxicity
- Genetic toxicity
- Carcinogenicity
- Toxicity to reproduction
- Specific investigations
- Exposure related observations in humans
- Toxic effects on livestock and pets
- Additional toxicological data
Guidance on Safe Use
Administrative data
First-aid measures
General instructions
IF THE SUBSTANCE IS INHALED, IS CAUSTIC TO THE SKIN, OR GETS INTO THE EYES, YOU MUST SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT IMMEDIATELY.
If health problems occur or if you suspect that your health may have been affected, contact your physician and give the information stated on this safety data sheet. It is necessary to keep the vital functions going until a physician arrives (i.e. check heartbeat, ensure artificial respiration, heart massage). If the affected person has lost consciousness or if you believe that he/she may lose consciousness, transport the person to a healthcare provider in a stabilised position, lying on his/her side. In the case of first degree burns (painful red spots) and second degree burns (painful blisters), cool the affected locations with a stream of cold water. In the case of third degree burns (black spots, crumbling pale skin, usually painless), do not cool the affected place, but cover it with a clean piece of cloth. The affected person must not lose body heat.
SPECIAL MEANS REQUIRED AT THE WORKPLACE: Eye bath and safety shower.
When inhaled
Take the afflicted person into the open air, rinse his/her mouth and nose with water, keep him/her warm and quiet. Call for professional medical help.
In case of contact with skin
Rinse the affected places with water immediately and remove contaminated clothing and shoes (cut the person's hair and nails, if necessary). Wash the skin well, but try to avoid irritating the skin mechanically, with a large quantity of lukewarm water. Do not use soap or neutralising agents and avoid mechanical irritation. Keep rinsing the affected person until the physician arrives (keep rinsing for 20 minutes at least). Affected places should be covered with a sterile bandage (or a clean piece of cloth). Call for professional medical help.
In case of contact with eyes
Rinse the eyes with a large quantity of clean, lukewarm water immediately. Keep washing even if it is necessary to exert some force to open the afflicted person’s eyelids. Wash the eye from the inside corner to the outside and do not stop until the physician arrives. If the afflicted person is wearing contact lenses, they must be removed immediately. Call for a professional medical help.
When swallowed
First rinse the mouth and then make the affected person drink 1-2 dl of water with charcoal, one sip at a time. Number of charcoal: 1 – 10 multiple of a swallowed corrosive substance. Do not induce vomitting! It is essential to seek medical treatment rapidly.
Fire-fighting measures
Extinguishing media
Suitable extinguishing media
Powder or snow fire extinguisher. In the case of a large-scale fire, use heavy foam with a polar foam maker, or a split water stream. Containers should be cooled with a screen of water. You should try to get them out of the fire.
Unsuitable extinguishing media:
Direct water jet.
Special hazards arising from the substance or mixture
While the substance burns, it produces toxic products. As the substance is very volatile, it may produce highly corrosive vapours. Mixtures of the steam of the substance with the air are explosive.
Advice for firefighters
When fighting the fire in the dangerous zone, you must use an isolation breathing apparatus as well as a protective anti-chemical pressure suit.
Accidental release measures
Personal precautions, protective equipment and emergency procedures
Personal precautions
Close the place of the accident. Send away all persons not involved in rescue works. When managing the emergency, use an isolation breathing apparatus and full anti-chemical suit. If this is not possible, use the personal emergency equipment described in Section 8. Remove or switch off all sources of ignition. Leaking tankers should be driven to safe locations, while it is necessary to prevent the liquid from leaking by closing or sealing the place of the leakage. It is also necessary to measure the concentration of substance in the area continuously (see point 5.3)
Environmental precautions
Prevent the substance from leaking into the sewerage system, ground and surface water, or into the soil. If the substance leaks into a watercourse, inform the water consumers immediately. If the capacity of the leakage source is large, raise emergency alarm immediately.
Methods and material for containment and cleaning up
The leaked liquid should be enclosed and pumped into a container suitable for further processing or disposal. The remnants should be absorbed into a suitable porous material (sand, vapex, infusorial earth). When storing and handling the substance, make sure the area is ventilated thoroughly. Disposal of the substance is governed by the valid waste handling legislation.
Handling and storage
Precautions for safe handling
Provide good vapour ventilation and, for the work place, exhaust, prevent the escape of substance vapours into the atmosphere, use working protective means in compliance with Point No. 8, handle in a manner as to prevent spillage or escape, prevent contact of the substance with open flame, sparks or hot surfaces.
Advice on general occupational hygiene
Do not eat, drink and smoke in work areas, to wash hands after use; and remove contaminated clothing and protective equipment before entering eating areas.
Conditions for safe storage, including any incompatibilities
Keep ventilating the storage room efficiently, use protective means in compliance with Point No. 8, store in closed packaging or tanks only, do not store together with food or strong oxidising agents, keep reservoirs, tanks and receptacles dry and tightly closed.
Transport information
Land transport (UN RTDG/ADR/RID)
- UN number:
- 2261
Shipping information
- Proper shipping name and description:
- XYLENOLS, SOLID
- Language:
- English
- Labels:
- 6.1.
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Inland waterway transport (UN RTDG/ADN(R))
- UN number:
- 2261
Shipping information
- Proper shipping name and description:
- XYLENOLS, SOLID
- Language:
- English
- Labels:
- 6.1
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Marine transport (UN RTDG/IMDG)
- UN number:
- 2261
Shipping information
- Proper shipping name and description:
- XYLENOLS, SOLID
- Labels:
- 6.1
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Air transport (UN RTDG/ICAO/IATA)
- UN number:
- 2261
Shipping information
- Proper shipping name and description:
- XYLENOLS, SOLID
- Labels:
- 6.1
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Exposure controls / personal protection
Occupational exposure controls
Collective protection measures
Plant-wide and local ventilation, effective exhaust system, automation, hermetic sealing.
Individual protection measures
The staff must wear personal protection equipment (PPE) to protect their eyes, hands and skin. This equipment must be suitable for the nature of the activities they do. Wherever the technical means do not enable obeying the exposure limits determined for the working environment or ensuring that inhaling the substance does not affect a persons’ health, the staff must use also suitable protection of the respiratory system. If the staff are to use this equipment permanently while working, it is necessary to include safety breaks, if required by the nature of the PPE. All the PPE must be kept in good condition. Any polluted or damaged equipment must be replaced immediately.
RECOMMENDED PERSONAL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT (PPE):
• Respiratory protection: Isolation breathing apparatus, or respirator equipped with an A filter is necessary
• Eye protection: Protective shield or goggles
• Hand protection: Protective gloves – anti-chemical
Glove material Layer thickness Penetration time
Everyday working activities (possible contact during operation or getting stained in the case of leakage) Neoprene 0.75 mm 480 min.
• Skin protection: protective rubber suit and footwear, unprotected skin must be treated with a protective lotion before beginning to work.
• Other recommendations: Eye bath and safety shower.
• General safety and hygienic measures: Follow the rules of personal hygiene. Do not eat, drink or smoke while working! Wash your hands as well as any uncovered parts of your body well with water and soap, or treat them with suitable reparation lotion after finishing work or before eating or drinking.
Environmental exposure controls
Follow the valid legal regulations governing the protection of the air and water.
Stability and reactivity
Reactivity
No reactivity hazards.
Chemical stability
The substance is stable under normal ambient and anticipated storage and handling conditions of temperature and pressure.
Possibility of hazardous reactions
Violent reaction: Strong oxidising agents – peroxy-compounds (peroxosulphuric acid and peroxodisulphuric) strong acid (sulfuric acid, nitric acid), organic nitrates and inorganic nitrites (in combination with strong acids).
Conditions to avoid
High temperature, formation of explosive mixtures of phenol vapours with air.
Incompatible materials
Strong bases, formaldehyde, alifatic aldehydes, halogens.
Hazardous decomposition products
Toxic and corrosive vapour generation in case of a fire or an accident
Disposal considerations
Waste treatment methods
The substance must be handled in compliance with the valid legal regulations governing the disposal of waste as well as with other environmental regulations. Leaked product must be handled in the manner described in Section 6.3 and then handed over to a person authorised to handle hazardous waste. It is recommended to dispose of this substance by making it a material that can be further used for energy generation purposes. Contact the producer for any additional information.
Recommended classification of the waste under Decree No. 381/2001 Coll.: 07 01 99*, 15 0110*, 16 05 08*
Methods of contaminated packaging disposal
Proceed in the same manner as when disposing of the product, tanks may be used only after preliminary cleaning thereof in authorised purification plants
Legal regulations governing the disposal and handling of waste
The Czech Republic
Act No. 185/2001 Coll. on waste modifying certain other acts, in the valid wording including delegated legislative (e.g. Decree No. 381/2001 Coll. determining the Catalogue of Waste)
The European Union
Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste and repealing certain Directives, in the valid wording.
Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on shipments of waste, in the valid wording.
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