Chemical:

Incompatible with these chemicals:

Acetic acid

Chromic acid, nitric acid, hydroxyl-containing compounds, ethylene glycol, perchloric acid, peroxides, and permanganates

Acetone

Concentrated sulfuric mixtures and nitric acid mixtures

Acetylene

Copper (tubing), fluorine, bromine, chlorine, iodine, silver, mercury, and their compounds

Alkali metals: calcium, potassium and sodium, cesium, lithium

Water, carbon dioxide, carbon tetrachloride, and other chlorinated hydrocarbons

Ammonia, anhydrous

Mercury, halogens, calcium hypochlorite, hydrogen fluoride

Ammonium aitrate

Acids, metal powders, flammable liquids, chlorates, nitrates, sulfur, and finely divided organics or combustibles

Aniline

Nitric acid and hydrogen peroxide

Bromine

Ammonia, acetylene, butadiene, butane, hydrogen, sodium carbide, turpentine, and finely divided metals

Carbon activated with calcium hypochlorate

All oxidizing agents

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 dioxide

Ammonia, methane, phosphine, and hydrogen sulfide

Chlorine

Ammonia, acetylene, butadiene, benzine, and other petroleum fractions, hydrogen, sodium carbide, turpentine, and finely divided powdered metals

Copper

Acetylene and hydrogen peroxide

Cyanides

Acids and alkalis

Flammable liquids

Ammonium nitrate, chromic acid, hydrogen peroxide, nitric acid, sodium peroxide, halogens, or oxidizing agents

Halogens: Fl, Cl Br, I

Ammonium, acetylene, and hydrocarbons

Hydrogen peroxide

Copper, chromium, iron, most metals or their respective salts, flammable fluids and other combustible materials, aniline, and nitromethane

Hydrogen sulfide

Fuming nitric acid and oxidizing gases

Hydrocarbons, general

Fluorine, chlorine, formine, chromic acid, sodium peroxide, and oxidizing agents

Iodine

Acetylene and ammonia

Mercury

Acetylene, fulminic acid, and hydrogen

Nitric acid

Acetic, chromic, and hydrocyanic acids; aniline, carbon, hydrogen sulfide; fluids or gases; substances that are readily nitrated

Oxygen

Oils; grease; hydrogen; flammable liquids, solids, and gases

Oxalic acid

Silver and mercury

Perchloric acid

Acetic anhydride, bismuth and its alloys, alcohol, paper, and wood and other organic materials

Phosphorus pentoxide

Water

Potassium permanganate

Glycerol, ethylene glycol, benzaldehyde, and sulfuric acid

Silver

Acetylene, oxalic acid, tartaric acid, and ammonium compounds

Sodium azide

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.

Sodium peroxide

Any oxidizable substance (i.e., methanol, glacial acetic acid, acetic anhydride, benzaldehyde, carbon disulfide, glycerol, ethylene glycol, ethyl acetate, and furfural)

Sodium

Carbon tetrachloride, carbon dioxide, and water

Sulfuric acid

Chlorates, perchlorates, permanganates, oxidizing agents, and water