Chemical:
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Incompatible with these chemicals:
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Acetic acid
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Chromic acid, nitric acid, hydroxyl-containing compounds, ethylene glycol, perchloric acid, peroxides, and permanganates
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Acetone
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Concentrated sulfuric mixtures and nitric acid mixtures
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Acetylene
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Copper (tubing), fluorine, bromine, chlorine, iodine, silver, mercury, and their
compounds
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Alkali metals:
calcium, potassium and sodium, cesium, lithium
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Water, carbon dioxide, carbon tetrachloride, and other chlorinated hydrocarbons
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Ammonia,
anhydrous
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Mercury, halogens, calcium hypochlorite, hydrogen fluoride
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Ammonium aitrate
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Acids, metal powders, flammable liquids, chlorates, nitrates, sulfur, and finely divided organics or combustibles
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Aniline
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Nitric acid and hydrogen peroxide
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Bromine
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Ammonia, acetylene, butadiene, butane, hydrogen, sodium carbide, turpentine, and
finely divided metals
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Carbon activated
with calcium hypochlorate
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All oxidizing agents
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Chlorates
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Ammonium salts, acids, metal powders, sulfur, finely divided organics or combustibles, and carbon
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Chromic acid
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Acetic acid, naphthalene, camphor, alcohol, glycerol, turpentine, and other
flammable liquids
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Chlorine dioxide
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Ammonia, methane, phosphine, and hydrogen sulfide
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Chlorine
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Ammonia, acetylene, butadiene, benzine, and other petroleum fractions, hydrogen,
sodium carbide, turpentine, and finely divided powdered metals
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Copper
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Acetylene and hydrogen peroxide
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Cyanides
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Acids and alkalis
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Flammable liquids
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Ammonium nitrate, chromic acid, hydrogen peroxide, nitric acid, sodium peroxide,
halogens, or oxidizing agents
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Halogens: Fl, Cl Br, I
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Ammonium, acetylene, and hydrocarbons
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Hydrogen peroxide
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Copper, chromium, iron, most metals or their respective salts, flammable fluids and
other combustible materials, aniline, and nitromethane
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Hydrogen sulfide
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Fuming nitric acid and oxidizing gases
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Hydrocarbons,
general
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Fluorine, chlorine, formine, chromic acid, sodium peroxide, and oxidizing agents
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Iodine
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Acetylene and ammonia
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Mercury
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Acetylene, fulminic acid, and hydrogen
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Nitric acid
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Acetic, chromic, and hydrocyanic acids; aniline, carbon, hydrogen sulfide; fluids or
gases; substances that are readily nitrated
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Oxygen
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Oils; grease; hydrogen; flammable liquids, solids, and gases
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Oxalic acid
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Silver and mercury
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Perchloric acid
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Acetic anhydride, bismuth and its alloys, alcohol, paper, and wood and other organic materials
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Phosphorus
pentoxide
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Water
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Potassium
permanganate
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Glycerol, ethylene glycol, benzaldehyde, and sulfuric acid
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Silver
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Acetylene, oxalic acid, tartaric acid, and ammonium compounds
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Sodium azide
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Preservative that forms unstable explosive compounds when exposed to lead, copper, and other metals. If disposed of by flushing into sinks, the trap can explode
when worked on by a plumber.
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Sodium peroxide
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Any oxidizable substance (i.e., methanol, glacial acetic acid, acetic anhydride, benzaldehyde, carbon disulfide, glycerol, ethylene glycol, ethyl acetate, and furfural)
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Sodium
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Carbon tetrachloride, carbon dioxide, and water
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Sulfuric acid
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Chlorates, perchlorates, permanganates, oxidizing agents, and water
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