MSDS

SAFETY DATA SHEET
7/12
Valve-regulated lead-acid battery
Version 1.0
Revision Date 2014/09/26
10.0.
Stability and Reactivity
Stability:
Stable
Conditions to Avoid:
Prolonged overcharging and overheating current; sparks and other sources of ignition.
Incompatibilities:
Electrolyte: Contact with combustibles and organic materials may cause fire and explosion. Also
reacts violently with strong reducing agents, most metals, carbides, chlorates, nitrates, picrate, sulfur
trioxide gas, strong oxidizers, and water. Contact with metals may produce toxic sulfur dioxide fumes
and may release flammable hydrogen gas. No further concern for mechanical impact.
Lead compounds: Avoid contact with strong acids, bases, halides, halogenates, potassium nitrate,
permanganate, peroxides, nascent hydrogen, potassium, carbides, sulfides, phosphorus, sulfur, and
reducing agents.
Hazardous Decomposition Products:
Electrolyte: Sulfur trioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfuric acid mist, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide,
hydrogen.
Lead compounds: Temperatures above the melting point are likely to produce toxic metal fume, vapor,
or dust; contact with strong acid or base or presence of nascent hydrogen may generate highly toxic
arsine gas.
Hazardous Polymerization:
Will Not Occur
11.1.
Toxicological information
Routes of Entry:
Electrolyte: Harmful by all routes of entry. Under normal conditions of use, sulfuric acid vapors and
mist a
re not generated. Sulfuric acid vapors and mist may be generated when product is overheated,
oxidized, or otherwise processed or damaged.
Lead compounds: Under normal conditions of use, lead dust, vapors, and fumes are not generated.
Hazardous exposure can occur only when product
is heated above the melting point, oxidized or
otherwise processed or damaged to create dust, vapor, or
fume.