# Methane (natural gas, non-mining) · IEC / ATEX — Gas group, temperature class and autoignition temperature by substance

For Methane (natural gas, non-mining), classification system is IEC / ATEX; apparatus / gas group is IIA, recorded from its source on 2026-10-06.

- **Substance:** Methane (natural gas, non-mining) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Classification system:** IEC / ATEX _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Apparatus / gas group:** IIA _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

**Apparatus / gas group:** The source prints this value inside the passage below but does not name it there. The passage shows where it appears; what ties it to this record is the position on the page, not anything the passage says.

> IIA Methane (natural gas, non-mining)

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## Source

- https://www.euroswitch.com/wp-content/uploads/euroswitch-hazardous-area-guide_V6.pdf

Last verified: 2026-10-06. Review by: 2028-10-05.
Part of [Gas group, temperature class and autoignition temperature by substance](https://referencesource.org/hazardous-area-substance-classification/).