Incompatible Chemicals - In Storage and Reactions

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Acetic Acid:
with chromic acid, nitric acid, ethylene glycol, perchloric acid, peroxides and permanganates.

Acetone:
with concentrated sulfuric and nitric acid mixtures.

Acetylene:
with copper (tubing) fluorine, bromine, chlorine, iodine, silver, mercury and their compounds.

Alkali Metals:
such as calcium, potassium and sodium with water, carbon dioxide, carbon tetrachloride, and other chlorinated hydrocarbons.

Ammonia, Anhydrous:
with mercury, halogens, calcium hypochlorite, hydrogen fluoride.

Ammonium Nitrate:
with acids, metal powders, flammable liquids, chlorates, nitrates, sulfur and finely divided organics or combustibles.

Aniline:
with nitric acid, hydrogen peroxide.

Bromine:
with ammonia, acetylene, butadiene, butane, hydrogen, sodium carbide, turpentine and finely divided metals.

Carbon:
activated with calcium hypochlorate - all oxidizing agents.

Chlorates:
with ammonium salts, acids, metal powders, sulfur, finely divided organics or combustibles, carbon.

Chromic Acid:
with acetic acid, naphthalene, camphor, alcohol, glycerine, turpentine and other flammable liquids.

Chlorine Dioxide:
with ammonia, methane, phosphine, hydrogen sulfide.

Chlorine:
with ammonia, acetylene, butadiene, benzine and other petroleum fractions, hydrogen, sodium carbide, turpentine and finely divided powdered metals.

Copper:
with acetylene, hydrogen peroxide.

Cyanides:
with acids and alkalies.

Flammable liquids:
with ammonium nitrate, chromic acid, hydrogen peroxide, nitric acid, sodium peroxide, halogens.

Hydrogen Peroxide:
with copper, chromium, iron, most metals, or their respective salts, flammable fluids and other combustible materials, aniline and nitromethane.

Hydrogen Sulfide:
with fuming nitric acid, oxidizing gases.

Hypochlorites:
with acids, activated carbon.

Iodine:
with acetylene, ammonia (aqueous or anhydrous), hydrogen.

Mercury:
with acetylene, fulminic acid, ammonia.

Nitrates:
with sulfuric acid.

Nitric Acid (concentrated)
with acetic acid, aniline, chromic acid, hydrocyanic acid, hydrogen sulfide, flammable liquids, flammable gases, copper, brass, any heavy metals.

Nitrites:
with acids.

Nitroparaffins:
with inorganic bases, amines.

Oxalic Acids:
with silver, mercury.

Oxygen:
with oils, grease, hydrogen, flammable liquids, solids, or gases.

Perchloric Acid:
with acetic anhydride, bismuth and its alloys, alcohol, paper, wood, grease, oils.

Peroxides, organic:
with acids, (organic or mineral), avoid friction, store cold.

Phosphorous (white):
with air, oxygen, alkalis, reducing agents.

Potassium:
with carbon tetrachloride, carbon dioxide, water.

Potassium chlorate:
with sulfuric and other acids.

Potassium perchlorate (see also chlorates):
with sulfuric and other acids.

Potassium permanganate:
with glycerol, ethylene glycol, benzaldehyde, sulfuric acid.

Selenides:
with reducing agents.

Silver:
with acetylene, oxalic acid, tartaric acid, ammonium compounds, fulminic acid.

Sodium:
with carbon tetrachloride, carbon dioxide, water.

Sodium Nitrite:
with ammonium nitrate and other ammonium salts.

Sodium Peroxide:
with ethyl or methyl alcohol, glacial acetic acid, acetic anhydride, benzaldehyde, carbon disulfide, glycerin, ethylene glycol, ethyl acetate, methyl acetate, furfural.

Sulfides:
with acids.

Sulfuric Acid:
with potassium chlorate, potassium perchlorate, potassium permanganate (similar compounds of light metals, such as sodium, lithium).

Tellurides:
with reducing agents.