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Short list of Incompatible Materials

ALKALI METALS
such as calcium, potassium, and sodium

with: water, carbon dioxide, carbon tetrachloride, and other chlorinated hydrocarbons.

ACETIC ACID

with: chromic acid, nitric acid, hydroxyl containing compounds, ethylene glycol, perchloric acid, peroxides, and permanganates.

ACETONE

with: concentrated sulfuric acid and nitric acid mixtures.

ACETYLENE

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

AMMONIA, ANHYDROUS

with: mercury, halogens, calcium hypochlorite, or hydrogen fluoride.

AMMONIUM NITRATE

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

ANILINE

with: nitric acid, hydrogen peroxide, or other strong oxidizing substances.

BROMINE

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

CHLORATES

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

CHROMIC ACID

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

CHLORINE

with: ammonia, acetylene, butadiene, benzene and other petroleum fractions, hydrogen, sodium carbides, turpentine, and finely divided metals.

CYANIDES

with: acids.

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE

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

HYDROGEN SULFIDE

with: nitric acid, oxidizing gases.

HYDROCARBONS

generally, with: fluorine, chlorine, bromine, chromic acid, or sodium peroxide.

IODINE

with: acetylene or ammonia.

MERCURY

with: acetylene, fluminic acid, or hydrogen.

NITRIC ACID

with: acetic, chromic, or hydrocyanic acids, aniline, carbon, hydrogen sulfide, flammable liquids or gases, or other substances which are readily nitrated.

OXYGEN

with: oils greases, hydrogen, flammable liquids, solids, or gases.

OXALIC ACID

with: silver or mercury

PERCHLORIC ACID

with: acetic anhydride, bismuth and its alloys, alcohol, paper, wood, and other organic materials.

PHOSPHOROUS PENTOXIDE

with: water.

POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE

with: glycerine, ethylene glycol, benzaldehyde, or sulfuric acid.

SODIUM PEROXIDE

with: any oxidizable substances, for instance: methanol, glacial acetic acid, acetic anhydride, benzaldehyde, carbon disulfide, glycerine, ethylene glycol, ethyl acetate, furfural, etc.

SULFURIC ACID

with: chlorates, perchlorates, permanganates, and water

Note:  This list is not a complete list of incompatible materials.  It contains some of the more common incompatible materials.  Always research the materials you work with in order to be safe.

 

Last Update: 2006-09-14

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