Application intelligence / Collection 1.0
Oil & gas
K-1, twenty degrees Baumé, inhibited: a field buys fuel, acid and fluoride chemistry on trade words. Each of those names a document, a hydrometer reading or a formulation. None of them is a set of attribute limits.
From application to a better specification
What “K-1” fixes, and where that number actually lives
A federal rule defines kerosene by pointing at a standard you have to buy, the sulfur limit you are thinking of does not apply, and the colour in the drum is a tax fact.
Read the guide →02 / Purchasing guideTwenty degrees Baumé is a hydrometer reading
A trade designation, an aggregated record that contradicts itself, an exposure card written for a gas, and a listing under the controlled-substance rules that is narrower than it looks.
Read the guide →03 / Application guideAmmonium bifluoride: buy the identity, read the safety data sheet
A salt with twelve retired CAS numbers that makes hydrofluoric acid in water, etches glass, and has no card of its own in the reference most people reach for.
Read the guide →Keep a working copyThe collection handbook
All 3 guides, evidence tables and source notes in one printable edition. Save as PDF from your browser.
Open the handbook →Engineering → purchasing
Build a requirements brief
Keep requirements, evidence and open questions together. Entries stay in this page’s memory until you leave or reload; this worksheet does not submit them. Download a text copy for your own review. Do not enter confidential or controlled technical information.
Connect the requirement to the material
Once your team has defined the application requirements, review the exact product’s available documents. Ask about packaging, lot evidence and unresolved sourcing questions; an industry listing is not an application approval.