What is ultra high purity nitrogen?
What Is Ultra High Purity (UHP) Nitrogen Gas? Ultra-high purity nitrogen gas refers to a nitrogen gas concentration of 99.999% with negligible impurities. UHP nitrogen specifications are strict with variations rendering the classification invalid.
Is nitrogen considered a hazardous material?
Nitrogen is a colorless gas or a liquid under pressure. It is the main component of air. It has many medical and industrial uses including the quick freezing of food. * Nitrogen is on the Hazardous Substance List because it is cited by ACGIH, DOT and NFPA.
Is nitrogen safe to breathe?
Nitrogen is an inert gas — meaning it doesn’t chemically react with other gases — and it isn’t toxic. But breathing pure nitrogen is deadly. That’s because the gas displaces oxygen in the lungs. Unconsciousness can occur within one or two breaths, according to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.
What does nitrogen NF mean?
Medical NF (National Formulary) Grade Nitrogen, Size 200 High Pressure Steel Cylinder, CGA-580.
Is a nitrogen tank flammable?
Nitrogen is non-toxic, odorless, and colorless. It is relatively inert and is not flammable.
Is nitrogen gas a carcinogen?
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and the EPA have not classified nitrogen oxides for potential carcinogenicity.
How much nitrogen is in the air?
approximately 78 percent
The air in Earth’s atmosphere is made up of approximately 78 percent nitrogen and 21 percent oxygen.
Is nitrogen gas toxic to humans?
High concentrations of nitrogen gas can be particularly harmful to human health. Nitrogen can displace oxygen from ambient air within an enclosed space leading to a dangerous build-up of the inert gas.
What is nitrogen gas used for in hospitals?
Nitrogen: Nitrogen is often used to power up surgical equipment during various procedures, and to measure a person’s response to a simulated aircraft cabin environment in pre-flight lung testing. This is known as hypoxic challenge testing.
What are ultra-high purity gases?
Air Products’ Experis ® ultra-high purity (UHP) gases range includes acetylene, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium, nitrogen, oxygen and synthetic air (zero air) all of which have been designed to deliver peace of mind whatever your application or use.
Is nitrogen flammable?
Nitrogen is a non-flammable air gas that forms 78% of the earth’s atmosphere. Valued for its inert properties in its gaseous form, nitrogen displaces air and therefore, reduces or eliminates the oxidation of materials.
Why choose Air Products’ UHP range?
Air Products’ UHP offering includes the market leading BIP ® range, which with a built-in-purifier in each cylinder, provides unrivalled specifications of key critical impurities, which are so important in the laboratory analysis.
Where can I buy Liquid nitrogen?
Air Products offers liquid nitrogen and compressed nitrogen gas in a variety of purities and in various modes of supply around the world thanks to our network of storage and transfill facilities.