Do not store incompatible chemicals in close proximity to each other. In an earthquake, fire, or other spill, they could mix and react violently and/or release poisonous gas.
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Laboratory Material |
Incompatible With |
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Alkali metals like calcium, potassium, and sodium |
water, carbon dioxide, carbon tetrachloride, other chlorinated hydrocarbons |
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Acetic Acid |
chromic acid, nitric acid, hydroxyl-containing compounds, ethylene glycol, perchloric acid, peroxides, permanganates |
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Acetone |
concentrated sulfuric or nitric acid mixtures |
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Acetylene |
copper (tubing), halogens, silver, mercury, and their compounds |
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Ammonia, Anhydrous |
mercury, halogens, calcium hypochlorite, hydrogen fluoride |
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Ammonium Nitrate |
acids, metal powders, flammable liquids, chlorates, nitrates, sulfur, finely divided organics or combustibles |
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Aniline |
nitric acid, hydrogen peroxide |
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Bromine |
ammonia, acetylene, butadiene, butane, hydrogen, sodium carbide, turpentine, finely divided metals |
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Chlorates |
ammonium salts, acids, metal powders, sulfur, carbon, finely divided organics, combustibles |
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Chromic Acid |
acetic acid, naphthalene, camphor, alcohol, glycerine, turpentine, other flammable liquids or combustible materials |
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Chlorine |
ammonia, acetylene, butadiene, benzene, other petroleum fractions, hydrogen, sodium carbide, turpentine, finely divided powdered metals |
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Cyanides |
acids |
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Hydrogen Peroxide |
copper, chromium, iron, most metals or their respective salts, flammable liquids or combustible materials, aniline, nitro-methane |
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Hydrogen Sulfide |
nitric acid, oxidizing gases |
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Hydrocarbons (general) |
halogens, chromic acid, sodium peroxide |
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Iodine |
acetylene, ammonia, chlorine |
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Mercury |
acetylene, ammonia, lithium |
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Nitric Acid |
acetic, chromic, and hydrocyanic acids, aniline, carbon, hydrogen sulfide, f lammable material, readily nitrated substances |
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Oxygen |
oils, grease, hydrogen; flammable materials |
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Oxalic Acid |
silver, mercury, chlorites, strong oxidizers |
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Perchloric Acid |
acetic anhydride, bismuth and its alloys, alcohol, paper, wood, other organic materials |
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Potassium Permanganate |
glycerine, ethylene glycol, benzaldehyde, sulfuric acid |
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Sodium Peroxide |
any oxidizable substances |
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Sulfuric Acid |
chlorates, perchlorates, permanganates |