Ammonia

SECTION 2: Hazards identification

SEE FIRST AID MEASURES SECTION FOR TREATMENTS) P260: Do not breathe gas/vapours Main Hazards Irritating or corrosive to exposed tissues. Inhalation of vapours may result in pulmonary oedema and chemical P262: Do not get in eyes, on skin, or on clothing pneumonitis. Contact with liquid product may cause P264: Wash hands thoroughly after handling frostbite or freeze burns, in exposed tissues. All P271: Use only outdoors or in a well ventilates area cylinders are portable gas containers and must be P273: Avoid release to the environment regarded as pressure vessels at all times. P391: Collect spillage Adverse Health Effects. Inhalation of high concentrations produces P284: Wear respiratory protection violent coughing due to the local action on the P304+P340 IF INHALED remove to fresh air and keep at rest in a respiratory tract. If rapid escape is not possible, severe position comfortable for breathing lung irritation, pulmonary oedema and death can result. P310: Immediately call a POISON CENTRE or doctor/physician Lower concentrations cause eye irritation, laryngitis and bronchitis. P320: Specific treatment is urgent (see first aid measures section) P301+P330+P331 IF SWALLOWED Rinse mouth. Do not induce Biological Hazards. Because of its alkaline properties, long-term vomiting exposure to flora can cause damage. Aquatic fauna can P303+P361+P353 IF ON SKIN (or hair) Immediately remove or take off also be affected should the pH of their environment change due to long-term exposure to high all contaminated clothing. Immediately rinse skin with concentrations of ammonia. water/shower P363: Wash contaminated clothing before re-use. Vapour Inhalation. Ammonia acts principally on the upper respiratory P305+P351+P338 IF IN EYES Rinse cautiously with water for several tract, where it exerts an alkaline, caustic action. It minutes. Remove contact lenses, if present and easy to produces respiratory reflexes such as coughing and do so. Continue rinsing. arrest of respiration. It affects the conjunctiva and cornea immediately. Inhalation causes acute P377 Leaking gas fire Do not extinguish, unless leak can be stopped inflammation of the respiratory organs, coughing, safely. oedema of the lungs, chronic bronchial catarrh, P401: Store in accordance with national regulations secretion of saliva and retention of urine. P403+233: Store in a well ventilated place and keep container tightly Eye Contact Exposure to high gas concentrations may cause closed temporary blindness and severe eye damage. Direct P405: Store locked up contact of the eyes with liquid anhydrous ammonia will P501: Do not dispose contents/container to storm water drains, treat as produce serious eye burns. hazardous waste. Skin Contact Liquid anhydrous ammonia produces skin burns on contact. Ingestion Swallowing of the liquid results in severe corrosive action of the mouth, throat, and stomach. patient can swallow, encourage him to