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Mixing can result in heat, fire, explosion, and/or toxic gases
Acetic Acid Chromic Acid, nitric acid, hydroxyl-containing compounds, ethylene glycol, perchloric acid, peroxides, and permanganates. Acetone Bromine, chlorine, nitric acid, sulfuric acid. Acetylene Bromine, chlorine, copper, mercury, fluorine, iodine, and silver. Alkaline and Alkaline Earth Metals such as calcium, lithium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, powdered aluminum Carbon dioxide, carbon tetrachloride and other chlorinated hydrocarbons, water, Bromine, chlorine, fluorine, and iodine. Aluminum and its Alloys (especially powders) Acid or alkaline solutions, ammonium persulfate and water, chlorates, chlorinated compounds, nitrates, and organic compounds in nitrate/nitrate salt baths. Ammonia (anhydrous) Bromine, chlorine, calcium hypochlorite, hydrofluoric acid, iodine, mercury, and silver. Ammonium Nitrate Acids, metal powders, flammable fluids, chlorates, nitrates, sulfur and finely divided organics or other combustibles. Aniline Hydrogen peroxide or nitric acid. Bromine Acetone, acetylene, ammonia, benzene, butadiene, butane and other petroleum gases, hydrogen, finely divided metals, sodium carbide, turpentine. Carbon (activated) Calcium hypochlorite, all oxidizing agents. Caustic (soda) Acids (organic and inorganic). Chlorates or Perchlorates Acids, aluminum, ammonium salts, cyanides, phosphorous, metal powders, oxidizable organics or other combustibles, sugar, sulfides, and sulfur. Chlorine Acetone, acetylene, ammonia, benzene, butadiene, butane and other petroleum gases, hydrogen, finely divided metals, sodium carbide, turpentine. Chlorine Dioxide Ammonia, methane, phosphine, hydrogen sulfide. Chromic Acid Acetic acid, naphthalene, camphor, alcohol, glycerine, turpentine and other flammable liquids. Copper Acetylene, hydrogen peroxide. Cumene Hydroperoxide Acids Cyanides Acids Flammable Liquids Ammonium nitrate, chromic acid, hydrogen peroxide, nitric acid, sodium peroxide, bromine, chlorine, fluorine, iodine. Fluorine Isolate from everything. Hydrocarbons Bromine, chlorine, chromic acid, fluorine, hydrogen peroxide, and sodium peroxide. Hydrocyanic Acid Nitric acid, alkali. Hydrofluoric Acid Ammonia, aqueous or anhydrous. Hydrogen Peroxide (anhydrous) Chromium, copper, iron, most metals or their salts, aniline, any flammable liquids, combustible materials, nitromethane, and all other organic material. Hydrogen Sulfide Fuming nitric acid, oxidizing gases. Iodine Acetylene, ammonia (aqueous or anhydrous), hydrogen. Mercury Acetylene, alkali metals, ammonia, fulminic acid, nitric acid with ethanol, hydrogen, oxalic acid. Nitrates Combustible materials, esters, phosphorous, sodium acetate, stannous chloride, water, zinc powder. Nitric acid (concentrated) Acetic acid, aniline, chromic acid, flammable gases and liquids, hydrocyanic acid, hydrogen sulfide. Nitrites Potassium or sodium cyanide. Nitro paraffins Inorganic alkalies. Oxalic acid Silver, mercury. Oxygen (liquid or enriched air) Flammable gases, liquids, or solids such as acetone, acetylene, grease, hydrogen, oils, phosphorous. Perchloric Acid Acetic anhydride, alcohols, bismuth and its alloys, grease, oils or any organic materials and reducing agents. Peroxides (organic) Acid (inorganic or organic). Potassium Air (moisture and/or oxygen) or water, carbon tetrachloride, carbon dioxide. Potassium Chlorate Sulfuric and other acids. Potassium Permanganate Benzaldehyde, ethylene glycol, glycerine, sulfuric acid. Silver Acetylene, oxalic acid, tartaric acid, ammonium compounds. Sodium Chlorate Acids, ammonium salts, oxidizable materials and sulfur. Sodium Nitrite Ammonia compounds, ammonium nitrate, or other ammonium salts. Sodium Peroxide Any oxidizable substances, such as methanol, glacial acetic acid, acetic anhydride, benzaldehyde, carbon disulfide, glycerine, ethylene glycol, ethyl acetate, furfural, etc. Sulfides Acids. Sulfur Any oxidizing materials. Sulfuric Acid Chlorates, perchlorates, permanganates, compounds with light metals such as sodium, lithium, and potassium. Water Acetyl chloride, alkaline and alkaline earth metals, their hydrides and oxides, barium peroxide, carbides, chromic acid, phosphorous oxychloride, phosphorous pentachloride, phosphorous pentoxide, sulfuric acid, sulfur trioxide.