National Stock Number

DoD. system that stores MSDS information, quantity and manufacturer, and National Stock numbers. On-line Database and microfiche, (. osi S30 - 540 per hour. 

According to the vendor, a 5-gal container [national stock number (NSN) 6850-01-417-1850] of Metraxt costs 33 (1997 dollars) per gallon, and a 55-gal container (NSN 6850-01-417-1812) costs 29 (1997 dollars) per gallon. A Model T Jr. Foamer (15-gal unit) costs 2900 (1997 dollars). One gallon of Metraxt will clean 100 ft for porous surfaces and 125 ft for nonporous surfaces (D14067A). 

As noted in Chapter 14, DOT has an identifying number for hazardous materials as does the United Nations. Numbering systems for procurement purposes, such as the federal National Stock Numbers, also identify chemicals. 

Technology and the Cities," National Science Foundation, D.W. Gottlieb, editor, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C., Stock Number 038-000-00213-9. 

Earth The Water Planet. National Science Teachers Association, 1742 Connecticut Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20009, Stock Number PB75. 

EX-number, national stock nrunber, or product code — explosives ... 

The problem of obsolete pesticide stocks in developing countries became serious at the beginning of the 90s because of the risks for human health and the environment. After a decade with a number of individual disposal operations organised and financed by national aid organisations, the international community has put this issue on their agenda, aiming to solve the problem through a number of international conventions and activities, e.g. ... 

More specifically, he argued that the political importance of the proletariat depended not only on the proportion it formed of the nation, but also on the amount of productive forces it sets in motion" - that is on the capital-intensity and hence on the size of the firms. Russia, being a latecomer to industrialization, was free to use the most advanced methods of large-scale production, requiring huge numbers of workers. Such concentration in itself facilitates class consciousness, which is further helped by the absence of a reformist past and the possibility of drawing on the stock of socialist ideas deveioped in the West. ... 

In the last ten years, work has been done in the North Sea by a number of national and international projects. A key project was the UK Natural Environment Research Council s North Sea project (NSP). A unique feature of the NSP was that a consistent grid of stations was worked in the southern North Sea once a month for fifteen months (Howarth etal., 1993). From this, the winter standing stock of nitrate and silicate was calculated. The inputs to the system over an annual timescale were then calculated to determine whether they can account for this standing stock. 

Despite such uncertainties, a chemical weapons reduction agreement17 was reached in 1990 between the United States and the Soviet Union that will (1) effectively stop chemical weapon production and (2) reduce each nation s chemical agent stocks to a value of 5,000 metric tons by the year 1999 (by the end of the year 2002, this number will fall to 500 tons). Destruction of the remainder is contingent on a commitment for similar, total chemical warfare stock elimination by other chemical warfare-capable nations.18,19... 

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