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Hazard Predictions

• Generates heat: Exothermic reaction at ambient temperatures (releases heat)
• Intense or explosive reaction: Reaction may be particularly intense, violent, or explosive

Ethylene oxide can explosively polymerize on contact with iron oxides or aluminum oxides (Gupta, A.K. 1949. J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 68:179).

Iron oxides significantly lower the autoignition temperature of ethylene oxide, posing a fire hazard (Urben, P.G. 1995. Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards, 5th Edition. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. pp. 314).

Alkali metal halides and magnesium iodide can cause the ring opening of epoxides and epoxy alcohols (Landini, D., Maia, A. and Pinna, C. "Ring opening reactions of 1,2-epoxides catalyzed by complexes of polyether ligands with metal halides in low polarity solvents. Comparison with heterogeneous systems." ARKIVOC. [Online] 2004, Ann Arbor, Michigan: MPublishing, University of Michigan Library. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.5550190.0005.317 (accessed Nov. 30, 2011)).