Substance Characteristic Categories: Example 

The three substance characteristic types Substance Property, Substance Composition and Substance Listing are classified according to individual substance characteristic categories.

If there are very many substance characteristic categories, they can be sorted into groups, for example, physical-chemical properties.

Substance characteristic type

Substance characteristic category

  • Substance properties:
  
  • Phys.-chem. properties

Density, color, acid number, and so on

  • First aid

First aid eye, first aid skin, and so on

  • Toxicology

Acute oral toxicity, acute toxicity on skin contact, and so on

  • and so on
  
  • Substance composition

Exact chemical composition. Composition according to TSCA, and so on

  • Substance listing

Substances that must be monitored at work center.
Products of decomposition processes.