Reactivity Documentation
Reducing Agents, Strong |
mixed with |
Metals, Less Reactive |
Summary
- Explosive: Reaction products may be explosive or sensitive to shock or friction
- Generates heat: Exothermic reaction at ambient temperatures (releases heat)
- Intense or explosive reaction: Reaction may be particularly intense, violent, or explosive
Details
Reactivity Predictions (for each pair of reactive groups)
Reducing Agents, Strong
Hazard Predictions
- Explosive: Reaction products may be explosive or sensitive to shock or friction
- 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 sulfur (DeVito, S. C. and Brooks, W. E. 2005. Mercury. Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. (Online)).
Mercury, iron, magnesium or copper will react exothermically with sulfur at ambient temperatures if in powdered form (Ephraim, F. 1939. Inorganic Chemistry. London, Gurney & Jackson, p. 519).
Many less reactive metals, including palladium, rhodium, and tin, ignite and incandesce if heated with sulfur (J. W. Mellor, 1942. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Vol. 15, pp. 149, 527, 627, 696. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.; J. W. Mellor, 1941. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Vol. 7, pp. 208, 328. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.).
The mixture of mercury and methylsilane is explosive in air (Stock, A. et al., Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft [Abteilung] B: Abhandlungen (1919), 52B, 695-724).