Talk:HAZMAT Class 3 Flammable liquids

Latest comment: 8 years ago by ManicDee in topic Above 100 °F?

Above 100 °F?

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...or any material in a liquid phase with a flash point at or above 37.8°C (100°F) This can't be right.--Biologos (talk) 17:09, 19 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

A flammable liquid is a liquid with flash point of not more than 60.5°C (141°F), or any material in a liquid phase with a flash point at or above 37.8°C (100°F).
This sentence seems to give two disparate or contradictory definitions at once because it says the same thing with two different cutoff figures going in two different directions. 89.217.28.204 (talk) 01:52, 11 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

This sentence is an incomplete quotation of the source.

(a) Flammable liquid. For the purpose of this subchapter, a flammable liquid (Class 3) means a liquid having a flash point of not more than 60 °C (140 °F), or any material in a liquid phase with a flash point at or above 37.8 °C (100 °F) that is intentionally heated and offered for transportation or transported at or above its flash point in a bulk packaging, with the following exceptions:…[1] (emphasis mine) ManicDee (talk) 22:03, 13 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ^ "49 CFR 173.120 - Class 3".