Your truck carries 100 pounds of dry silver cyanide, and a shipper gives you the paperwork for 100 cartons of battery acid. What action are you required to take?

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Why

Mixing an acid with a cyanide can produce deadly hydrocyanic acid, so cyanides and cyanide mixtures may never travel with acids, corrosives, or other acidic materials. The battery acid therefore has to go on a separate load. Note that silver cyanide is a poison, not a Class 8 corrosive.

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Topic: Hazardous materials   License: CDL

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