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Environmental Management > Table of Incompatible Chemicals
The following substances may react violently with one another and must be kept apart. 
      Chemical      Is Incompatible with
    Acetic acid     Chromic acid, nitric acid alcohols, ethylene glycol, perchloric acid,
    peroxides, permanganates
    Acetone     Concentrated nitric and sulfuric acid mixtures
    Acetylene     Chlorine, bromine, fluorine, copper, silver, mercury
    Acids     Bases
    ActivatedCarbon     Calcium hypochlorite, oxidizing agents
    Alkali Metals     Water, carbon tetrachloride and other halogenated alkanes, carbon
    dioxide, halogens
    Aluminum Alkyls     Water
    Ammonia     Mercury (e.g., in pressure gauges), laboratory gas chlorine, calcium
    hypochlorite, iodine, bromine, hydrogen fluoride
    Ammonium     Acids, powered metals, flammable liquids, chlorates, nitrates,
    sulfur, fine-particulate organic Nitrate or combustible materials.
    Aniline     Nitric acid, hydrogen peroxide
    Azides     Acids
    Bases     Acids
    Bromine     See chlorine
    Carbon Tetrachloride     Sodium
    Chlorates     Ammonium salts, acids, powered metals, sulfur, fine-particulate
    organic or combustible substances
    Chlorine     Ammonia, acetylene, butadiene, butane, methane, propane,
    hydrogen, petroleum benzine, benzene, powered metals
    Chromic Acid     Acetic acid, naphthalene, camphor, glycerol, petroleum benzine,
    alcohols, flammable liquids
    Copper     Acetylene, hydrogen peroxide
    Cumene Hydroperoxide     Acids, both organic and inorganic
    Cyanides     Acids
    Flammable Liquids     Ammonium nitrate, chromic acid, hydrogen peroxide, nitric acid,
    sodium peroxide, halogens
    Fluorine     Store separately
    Hydrocarbons(butane,
    propane,benzene, etc.)
    Fluorine, chlorine, bromine, chromic acid, sodium peroxide
    Hydrogen Fluoride     Ammonia, laboratory gas or solution
    Hydrogen Peroxide     Copper, Chromium, iron, metals and metals salts, alcohols,
    acetone, organic substances, aniline, nitromethane, combustibles
    (solid or liquid)
    Hydrogen Sulfide     Fuming nitric acid, oxidizing gases
    Iodine     Acetylene, ammonia (laboratory gas or solution)
    Mercury     Acetylene, ammonia
    Nitric Acid, Conc.     Acetic acid, aniline, chromic acid, prussic acid, hydrogen sulfide,
    flammable liquids and gases
    Oxalic Acid     Silver, mercury
    Perchloric Acid     Acetic anhydride, bismuth and its alloys, alcohols, paper, wood
    Phosphorus     Sulfur, oxygen-containing compounds with such as chlorates
    Potassium     See alkali metals
    Potassium Chlorate     See chlorates
    Potassium Perchlorate     See chlorates
    Potassium Permanganate     Glycerol, ethylene glycol, benzaldehyde, sulfuric acid
    Silver     Acetylene, oxalic acid, tartaric acid, ammonium compounds.
    Sodium     See alkali metals
    Sodium Peroxide     Methanol, ethanol, glacial acetic acid, anhydride, benzaldehyde,
    carbon disulfide, glycerol, ethylene glycol, ethyl acetate, methyl     acetate, furfurol
    Sulfides     Acids
    Sulfuric Acid
    Potassium chlorate, potassium perchlorate, potassium
    permanganate



 
 
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