Appendix A: Chemical Compatibility List
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Alkali Metals | Water, carbon dioxide, calcium, potassium, carbon tetrachloride, sodium, and other chlorinated hydrocarbons |
Acetic Acid | Chromic acid, nitric acid, hydroxyl containing compounds, ethylene glycol, perchloric acid, peroxides, and permanganates |
Acetone | Concentrated sulfuric and nitric acid mixtures |
Acetylene | Copper (tubing), fluorine, chlorine, iodine, silver, mercury, and their salts |
Ammonium Nitrate | Acids, metal powders, flammable liquids, chlorates, nitrates, sulfur, and finely divided organics or combustibles |
Anhydrous Ammonia | Mercury, halogens, calcium hypochlorite, and hydrogen fluoride |
Aniline | Nitric acid, hydrogen peroxide |
Bromine | Ammonia, acetylene, butadiene, butane, hydrogen, sodium carbide, turpentine, and finely divided metals |
Chlorates | Ammonium salts, acids, metal powders, sulfur, finely divided organics or combustibles, and carbon |
Chromic Acid | Acetic acid, naphthalene, camphor, alcohol, glycerol, turpentine, and other flammable liquids |
Chlorine | Ammonia, acetylene, butadiene, benzene and other petroleum fractions, hydrogen, sodium carbide, turpentine, and finely divided powdered metals |
Cyanides | Acids |
Hydrogen Sulfide | Nitric acid, oxidizing gases |
Hydrocarbons | Fluorine, chlorine, bromine, chromic acid, and sodium peroxide |
Iodine | Ammonia, acetylene, butadiene, benzene and other petroleum fractions, hydrogen, sodium carbide, turpentine, and finely divided powdered metals |
Mercury | Acetylene, fulminic acid, and hydrogen |
Nitric Acid | Acetic, chromic and hydrocyanic acids, aniline, carbon, hydrogen sulfide, flammable liquids or gases, and substances which are readily nitrated |
Oxygen | Oils, grease, hydrogen, flammable liquids, solids or gases |
Oxalic Acid | Silver and mercury |
Perchloric Acid | Acetic anhydride, bismuth and its alloys, alcohol, paper, wood, and other organic materials |
Phosphorous Pentoxide | Water |
Potassium Permanganate | Glycerol, ethylene glycol, benzaldehyde, and sulfuric acid |
Sodium Peroxide | Any oxidizable substances, e.g., methanol, glacial acetic acid, acetic anhydride, benzaldehyde, carbon disulfide, glycerol, ethylene glycol, ethylacetate, and furfural |
Sulfuric Acid | Chlorates, perchlorates, permanganates, and water |