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Physical hazards

H205

May mass explode in fire

Official hazard statement, UN GHS Rev. 9 (2021), Annex 3.

How this code is assigned

GHS classExplosives, Division 1.5
CriterionAssigned to very insensitive substances that have a mass-explosion hazard only in fire.

Summary of the classification criterion the standard itself uses to assign H205. Not a safety recommendation from CarCareTruth.

Source

H205 is a hazard statement defined in Annex 3 of the United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), Revision 9 (2021). The text above is quoted verbatim from that standard.

CarCareTruth publishes the official statement and a restatement of the standard’s own classification criterion. We do not add safety recommendations, severity judgments, or interpretation of what action a user should take. For full regulatory context, consult the published standard or the product’s own Safety Data Sheet (Section 2).

Products on CarCareTruth whose published SDS includes H205

No products in our catalog list H205 on the Safety Data Sheet published by their manufacturer.

Sources: United Nations, Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), Rev. 9 (2021), Annex 3 for the hazard-statement text. Product associations are taken verbatim from Section 2 of the Safety Data Sheet published by each product’s manufacturer. CarCareTruth does not add interpretation to GHS hazard codes.