MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET
ZINC CARBONATE
CAS NUMBER 3486-35-9
1. Identification:
Name on label: Zinc Carbonate.
Company Address: Via Lombardia, 58
20056 Trezzo sull’Adda - Milano (ITALIA)
Emergency tel number: +39 2 90962195
2. Composition and Ingredients:
Composition: ZnCO3
Molecular weight: 125.39
3. Hazards:
Water solutions of the product are alkaline and they have irritating
action on the mucous digestive, on the eyes and on the healthy skin.
In case of inhalation of the dusts with repeated and prolonged exposure,
risk of ulcerations and perforations of the nasal septum.
4. First Aid:
Ingestion: Drink water with vinegar.
Rinse the mouth with fresh water.
Don't provoke the vomit.
Consult a doctor with urgency.
Inhalation: Remove patient from exposure.
Obtain medical attention.
Skin Contact: Wash skin with water.
Remove contaminated clothing.
Obtain medical attention.
Eye Contact: Immediately irrigate with clean water, holding the eyelids
apart, for at least 20 minutes.
General recommendations: Avoid the gastric washing and emetics.
5. Fire Fighting:
Characteristic: Non-flammable.
Extinguishing media: appropriate far surrounding fire.
Dangers: From 330 °C evolve CO2 .
6. Accidental Release:
Precautions: Personal protective clothing see section 8.
Cleaning up: Shovel into well labelled containers far disposal or recovery.
7. Handling and Storage:
Handling: not handling without gloves. Shovel into well labelled
containers far disposal or recovery.
Storage: in a covered and dry storage, sheltered from acids.
Packaging: paper bags.
8. Exposure and Chemical Properties:
TWA OEL: Short Term OEL.
Required: Rubber gloves and coveralls.
Recommended: eye protection and dust mask if dust levels ore high.
9. Physical and Chemical Properties:
Appearance: Clear to white crystalline powder
Solubility: poor in water
Density: 0.5
Melting point: decomposition
pH: in water solution alkaline reaction 8.5
10. Stability and Reactivity:
Hazardous decomposition products: avoid to warm up the product
Hazardous reactions: at 330°C evolve CO2
11. Toxicology:
Acute toxicity: in case of ingestion of assembled solutions, intense
irritation to the throat with strong burning also to the oesophagus and the
stomach.
Corrosiveness: dusts: mechanical irritation due to the product based.
Assembled solutions: intense irritation, weeping, reddening of the eyes,
swelling of the eyelids.
12. Ecology:
n.n.
13. Disposal:
Disposal should be in accordance with local national legislation.
Dispose of at “Disposal site” according Environment Conservation Act.
14. Transport:
n.n.
15. Regulations:
Users should ensure that they comply with any relevant local, state or
national legislation.
16. Other:
All information is given in good faith but without guarantee in respect
of accuracy, and no responsibility is accepted for errors or omissions or
the consequences thereof. It is the user’s obligation to determine the
conditions of safe use of the material
