Registration Dossier
Registration Dossier
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EC number: 237-280-0 | CAS number: 13718-59-7
Uses at industrial sites
Uses at industrial sites
- Registration/ Notification status for the use:
- use registered according to REACH Article 10; total tonnage manufactured/imported >=10tonnes/year per registrant
- Use name:
- use of barium selenite as additive in glass manufacture
Contributing activity / technique for the environment
- Name of activity / technique:
- use of barium selenite as colourant or decolourant in glass manufacture, barium selenite is added as such or in a mixture to the hot glass melt, transformed into oxides and covalently bound to the glass matrix
- Environmental release category (ERC):
- ERC6a: Use of intermediate
Contributing activity / technique for workersopen allclose all
- Name of activity / technique:
- barium selenite as such or additive mixture is mixed with the glass raw material and heated, in the melt the barium selenite reacts with oxides and the glass matrix in a continuous closed process
- Process category (PROC):
- PROC 2: Chemical production or refinery in closed continuous process with occasional controlled exposure or processes with equivalent containment conditions
- Name of activity / technique:
- barium selenite as such or additive mixture is mixed with the glass raw material and heated, in the melt the barium selenite reacts with oxides and the glass matrix in semi open batch process
- Process category (PROC):
- PROC 4: Chemical production where opportunity for exposure arises
- Name of activity / technique:
- melting of glass
- Process category (PROC):
- PROC 22: Potentially closed processing operations with minerals/metals at elevated temperature. Industrial setting
- Product category used:
- PC 0: Other: glass products
- Sector of end use:
- SU 8: Manufacture of bulk, large scale chemicals (including petroleum products)
- Substance supplied to that use in form of:
- in a mixture
- Subsequent service life relevant for this use:
- no
- Related assessment:
- use assessed in a joint CSR
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