ADR hazard number 59

Hazard identification number 59 on the orange plate: oxidizing (fire-intensifying) substance able to lead spontaneously to a violent reaction.

Printed in the upper half of the orange-coloured plate above the UN number, 59 identifies an oxidizing (fire-intensifying) substance able to lead spontaneously to a violent reaction.

Digit by digit
5oxidizing effect: the substance intensifies fire
9risk of a spontaneous violent reaction (by the nature of the substance: explosion, disintegration or polymerization with much heat or flammable and/or toxic gases released)

Note. Number and meaning pairing checked against a second text extraction of the list.

Refers to: 5.3.2.3.1; 5.3.2.2.3; Table A column (20).

Carried by 1 Table A entry

UN 2426

Source: ADR 2025 (ECE/TRANS/352), Volume II, section 5.3.2.3.2, 59, page 268.

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