Datatypes

UN number (dangerous goods)

ID un_number

DatatypeNot PIIcategoricalDraft

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Four-digit number that the UN Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods assigns to a hazardous substance or article, such as 1203 for petrol. It appears on transport documents and orange hazard plates.

Categories
Transportation, Chemistry
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
Wikidata
P695
Quality
80/100 · missing: negative example, translation, detector coverage
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
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Regular expression

^\d{4}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
1687sodium azide
1170ethanol

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