Synonyms:  Triatomic Oxygen

CAS No.:  10028-15-6

Molecular Weight:  48.0

Chemical Formula:  O₃

Ingredient:  Ozone Gas

CAS No.:  10028-15-6

Percent:  1-15%

Hazardous:  Yes

Emergency Overview:
Highly reactive, can explode on contact with organic substances, especially strong reducing agents.  Ozone is a powerful oxidizing agent and oxidation with ozone evolves more heat and usually starts at a lower temperature than oxidation with oxygen.  It reacts with non-saturated organic compounds to produce ozonides, which are unstable and may decompose with explosive violence.  Ozone is an unstable gas which, at normal temperatures, decomposes to diatomic oxygen.  At elevated temperatures and in the presence of certain catalysis such as hydrogen, iron, copper, and chromium, this decomposition may be explosive.

Potential Health Effects:

Inhalation: Causes dryness of the mouth, coughing, and irritates the nose, throat, and chest.  May cause difficulty in breathing, headache, and fatigue.  the characteristic sharp, irritating odor is readily detectable at low concentrations (0.01 to 0.05 ppm).

Skin:  Absorption through intact skin is not expected.

Eye Contact: Ozone is an irritant to the eyes causing pain, lacrimation, and general inflammation.

Ingestion:  Not a route of exposure

Aggravation of Pre-Exisitng Conditions:  Ozone may increase sensitivity to bronchoconstrictors including allergens.

Inhalation:  Remove to fresh air; if breathing is difficult a trained person should administer oxygen.  If respiration stops, give mouth to mouth resuscitation.  Get medical attention.

Ingestion:  Not an expected route of exposure.

Skin Contact:  Wash skin thoroughly with soap and water.

Eye Contact:  Immediately flush eyes with large amounts of water for at least 15 minutes, while forcibly holding eyelids apart to ensure flushing of the entire eye surface.  If irritation, pain or other symptoms persist seek medical attention.

Acute:  May cause irritation of skin, eyes, and mucous membranes of the respiratory tract.  Drowsiness, dizziness, headache, and fatigue have been associated with exposure.

Chronic:  Long-term health effects are not expected from exposure to ozone.  A partial tolerance appears to develop with repeated exposures.

Flash Point:  N/D

Auto Ignition Temperature:  N/D

Flammable Limits in Air, % by Volume:  Upper: N/D  Lower: N/D

Extinguishing Media:  Use extinguishing media suitable for surrounding fires.

Unusual Fire and Explosion Hazard:  None expected.  Since ozone is highly unstable and decomposes under all conditions and is not encountered except at very small levels in the immediate vicinity where formed.

Stability:  Ozone spontaneously decomposes under all ordinary conditions, so that it is not encountered except in the immediate vicinity of where it was formed.  The decomposition is speeded by solid surfaces and by many chemical substances.

Hazardous Decomposition Products:  Reactive singlet oxygen.

Hazardous Polymerization:  Will not occur.

Incompatibilities:  Ozone is a powerful oxidizing agent and reacts with all oxidizble materials, both organic and inorganic.  Some reactions are highly explosive.  alkenes, benzene, and other aromatic compounds, rubber, dicyanogn, bromine diethyl ether, dinitrogen tetroxide, nitrogent trichloride, hydrogen bromide, and tetrafluorohydrazine.

Conditions to Avoid:  Incompatibles.

Ozone is extremely irritating to the upper and lower respiratory tract.  The characteristic odor is readily detectable at low concentrations (0.02 to 0.05 ppm).  Ozone produces local irritation of the eyes and mucous membranes and  may cause pulmonary edema at high exposure.  systematically, ozone has been reported to mimic the effects of ionizing radiation and may cause damage to chromosomal structures.  A partial tolerance appears to develop with repeated exposures.  although most effects are acute, the possibility of chronic lung impairment should be considered, based upon animal experimentation.

Environmental Fate:  No information found.

Environmental Toxicity:  No information found.

SARA TITLE III (Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act):  N/A

TSCA (Toxic Substances Control Act):  The ingredients of this product are on the TSCA Inventory List.

OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration):  Nonhazardous according to definitions of health hazard and physical hazard provided in the Hazard Communication Standard (29 CFR 1910.1200).

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