PRODUCT NAME Hydrogen Bromide | CAS# 10035-10-6 | TRADE NAME AND SYNONYMS Hydrogen Bromide, anhydrous (D.D.T.) | DOT I.D. NO. UN 1048 | CHEMICAL NAME AND SYNONYMS Hydrogen Bromide; Anhydrous Hydrobromic Acid | DOT HAZARD CLASS Division 2.3 | ISSUE DATE AND REVISIONS Revised July 2007 | FORMULA HBr |
HEALTH HAZARD DATA EMERGENCY OVERVIEW Hydrogen Bromide is a corrosive, colorless, irritating, nonflammable, toxic gas with a suffocating odor. Also, it may cause eye, skin, and respiratory tract burns. | SYMPTOMS OF EXPOSURE Corrosive and irritating to the upper and lower respiratory tracts, skin and eyes. It hydrolyzes very rapidly yielding hydrobromic acid. Skin burns and mucosal irritation are like that from exposure to volatile inorganic acids. Symptoms include lacrymation, cough, labored breathing and excessive salivary and sputum formation. Excessive irritation of the lungs causes acute pneumonitis and pulmonary edema that could be fatal. Hydrobromic acid burns exhibit severe pain, redness, possible swelling and early necrosis. |
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