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    Safety Basics & RAMP

    Incompatible Chemicals
    Many chemicals are incompatible with each other.

    According to Laboratory Safety for Chemistry Students [PDF], by Robert H. Hill and David
    C. Finster:

    Incompatible chemicals are combinations of substances, usually in


    concentrated form, that react with each other to produce very exothermic
    reactions that can be violent and explosive and/or can release toxic substances,
    usually as gases.

    Care should be taken when handling, storing, or disposing of chemicals in combination.


    Below is a short list of common laboratory chemicals and the substances with which they
    are incompatible.

    Incompatible Chemicals
    Chemical  Incompatible with

    Acetic acid nitric acid, peroxides, permanganates

    Acetic anhydride ethylene glycol, hydroxyl-group-containing compounds

    Acetone hydrogen peroxide

    Ammonium nitrate acids, flammable liquids, powdered metals, finely divided organic
    or combustible materials

    Chlorate salts, such as sodium acids, ammonium salts, metal powders, finely divided organic or
    or potassium chlorate combustible materials
    Chlorine ammonia, butane, hydrogen, turpentine, finely divided metals

    Copper hydrogen peroxide

    Hydrocarbons bromine, chlorine, peroxides

    Hydrogen peroxide combustible materials, copper, iron, most metals and their salts,
    any flammable liquid

    Iodine Ammonia

    Nitric acid, concentrated acetic acid, acetone, alcohol, flammable substances, such as
    organic chemicals
    Note:  There have been many explosions from inappropriate or
    inadvertent mixing of nitric acid with organic chemicals in waste
    containers.

    Oxalic acid silver, mercury

    Oxygen flammable materials, hydrogen, oils

    Phosphorus, white air, oxygen

    Potassium permanganate ethylene glycol, glycerol, sulfuric acid

    Sodium (alkali metals: lithium, arbon dioxide, water, alcohols


    sodium, and potassium)

    Sodium nitrite ammonium salts

    Sulfuric acid chlorates, perchlorates, permanganates

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