Copper incompatibility

Eabrication techniques must take into account the metallurgical properties of the metals to be joined and the possibiUty of undesirable diffusion at the interface during hot forming, heat treating, and welding. Compatible alloys, ie, those that do not form intermetaUic compounds upon alloying, eg, nickel and nickel alloys (qv), copper and copper alloys (qv), and stainless steel alloys clad to steel, may be treated by the traditional techniques developed for clads produced by other processes. On the other hand, incompatible combinations, eg, titanium, zirconium, or aluminum to steel, require special techniques designed to limit the production at the interface of undesirable intermetaUics which would jeopardize bond ductihty. 

Strong oxidizers and strong acids are incompatible with nikanolamines. Reactions, generating temperature and/or pressure increases, may occur with halogenated organic compounds. Alkan olamines are corrosive to copper and brass and may react. Contact with aluminum by alkan olamines, particularly when wet or at elevated temperatures (60°C), should be avoided. 

Copper nitrate reacts with sodamide and ammonia by forming explosive copper amides. The oxidising properties of this nitrate have led to violent detonations with ammonium hexacyanoferrates heated to 220 C in the presence of water traces, or dry at the same temperature, but in the presence of an excess of hexacyanoferrate. These accidents illustrate once more the incompatibility between compounds with a cyano group (or cyanide anion) and oxidants. An accident also occurred with a potassium hexacyanoferrate. 

Finally, anions that are incompatible with oxidants will give rise to violent reactions with iodates. This goes for cyanides, thiocyanates and sulphides. In the last case, arsenic, antimony, copper and tin sulphides were the main ones cited. 

Arsine is incompatible with strong oxidizers and various metals including aluminum, copper, brass, and nickel. It may be decompose on exposure to light to produce hydrogen gas and arsenic metal. 

INCOMPATIBILITY Attacks tin, magnesium, cadmium plated steel, some aluminums. Slight attack on copper, brass, lead, practically no attack on 1020 steel, Inconel K-monel. 

Incompatibility Alkalis, ammonia, alcohols, copper NIOSH 1997... 

Despite the good performance characteristics of HMTD, it had several significant faults. As mentioned earlier, the peroxide bond is very reactive. This made HMTD incompatible with most metals. It actively attacked aluminum, tin, zinc, brass, copper, iron, and lead. HMTD was also very unstable when stored, exhibiting tremendous weight loss over short periods of time. In the end, it was judged both too reactive and too thermally unstable for any practical usage. It fell into obscurity in the explosives community in the early 1950s. 

Stability. Incompatible with metals such as aluminium and copper, halogenated organics, strong acids, oxidizing materials and absorbent materials (cellulose, sawdust) (Dow Chemical Company, 1999a)... 

Alpha tocopherol Beta, delta, and gamma are considered to be more effective antioxidants Incompatible with peroxides and metal ions, especially iron, and copper. May be absorbed into plastic. Protect from light, and oxygen during storage... 

Note Copper columns often cause adsorption problems incompatible with amines, anilines, acetylenes, terpenes, steroids, and strong bases. 

Bleomycin Bleomycin is incompatible and loses its potency if it is administered with solutions of benzylpenicillin sodium, carbenicillin, cephazolin or cephalothin sodium, hydrocortisone sodium succinate, mitomycin, methotrexate, nafcillin sodium, aminophylline, ascorbic acid, terbutaline, divalent and trivalent cations (especially copper), compounds containing sulfhydryl groups, and precipitation by hydrophobic anions, essential amino acids, riboflavine, dexamethasone, and frusemide. 

Austenitic SS s are also used in freshwater. However, because of cost their use is limited mainly to applications in which copper-zinc alloys are unsuitable, as in tubes in which the process side is incompatible with copper base alloys. To avoid pitting, type 304 (UNS S30400) SS is normally limited to services in which the chloride ion concentration is at a maximum of 100 ppm, and type 316 SS is limited to services in which the chloride ion is a maximum of 500 ppm. The relative pitting and crevice corrosion resistance of SS alloys can be approximated by the following equation ... 

As mentioned above, the environment has a significant effect on whether or not galvanic corrosion will be a problem. For example, carbon steel will corrode rapidly if equal or larger areas of Monel 400 are coupled with it in seawater. Conversely, carbon steel is compatible with Monel 400 in concentrated caustic solutions. Even freshwater can be sufficiently different from seawater couples incompatible in seawater work well in freshwater. For example, copper-steel and aluminum-steet couples are satisfactory for handling... 

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