This European Standard specifies the requirements, sampling, test methods and conditions of delivery for copper tubes.
It is applicable to seamless round copper tubes having an outside diameter from 6 mm up to and including 133 mm for pipeline systems under vacuum or for distributing the following medical gases intended to be used at operating pressures up to 2 000 kPa:
- oxygen, nitrous oxide, nitrogen, helium, carbon dioxide, xenon
- medical air
- specific mixtures of these above mentioned gases
- air for driving surgical tools
- anaesthetic gases and vapours.