Reactivity Documentation
Metals, Less Reactive |
mixed with |
Oxidizing Agents, Strong |
Summary
- Explosive: Reaction products may be explosive or sensitive to shock or friction
- Flammable: Reaction products may be flammable
- Generates gas: Reaction liberates gaseous products and may cause pressurization
- Generates heat: Exothermic reaction at ambient temperatures (releases heat)
- Intense or explosive reaction: Reaction may be particularly intense, violent, or explosive
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May produce the following gases:
- Oxygen
Details
Reactivity Predictions (for each pair of reactive groups)
Oxidizing Agents, Strong
Hazard Predictions
- Explosive: Reaction products may be explosive or sensitive to shock or friction
- Flammable: Reaction products may be flammable
- Generates gas: Reaction liberates gaseous products and may cause pressurization
- Generates heat: Exothermic reaction at ambient temperatures (releases heat)
- Intense or explosive reaction: Reaction may be particularly intense, violent, or explosive
Mercury combines readily with the halogens (DeVito, S. C. and Brooks, W. E. 2005. Mercury. Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. (Online); MCA Safety Data Sheet 49, Manufacturing Chemists' Association, Washington, 1968).
Chlorine, bromine, and iodine readily react with tin; with fluorine, the action is slow at room temperature (Gaver, C. C. and Updated by Staff 2005. Tin and Tin Alloys. Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. (Online)).
Iodine bromide reacts violently with tin (Pascal, P. 1963. Nouveau Traité de Chimie Minérale. Vol. 8, Part 3, p. 308. Masson et Cie.).
Silver, copper, tin, and lead react violently and may ignite on contact with ClF3 (Urben, P.G. 1995. Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards, 5th Edition. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. pp. 1237).
Powdered copper will burn in chlorine (Mellor, J.W. 1967. Mellor's Modern Inorganic Chemistry, 6th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 649).
Silver, platinum, gold, copper, and lead can catalyze exothermic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide, releasing combustion-promoting O2 gas (Urben, P.G. 1995. Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards, 5th Edition. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. pp. 1531; Winnacker. 1970. Volume 2. pp. 552).
Copper reacts incandescently with KO2 (J. W. Mellor, 1941. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Vol. 2, pp. 493. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.).
Silver can cause explosive decomposition of ozonides (Rieche, A. et al. Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie (1942), 553, 187-249).
Copper and many other metals cause hydrazinium nitrate to ignite and decompose at 70 C (J. W. Mellor, 1940. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Vol. 8, pp. 327. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.; J. W. Mellor, 1967. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Vol. 8, Supp. 2, pp. 84, 96. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.).
Copper forms shock and friction-sensitive mixtures with bromate, chlorate, and iodate salts (J. W. Mellor, 1946. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Vol. 2, pp. 310. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.).
Mercury forms a shock-sensitive explosive mixture with ClO2 (J. W. Mellor, 1941. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Vol. 2, pp. 288. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.).
Potential Gas Byproducts
- Oxygen (O2)