Hazardous chemical reactivity

Hazardous chemical reactivity Any chemical reaction with the potential to exhibit an increase in temperature and/or pressure too high to be absorbed by the environment surrounding the system. These include both reactive and unstable materials. 

Hazardous chemical reactivity is any chemical reaction with the potential to exhibit rates of increase in temperature and/or pressure too high to be absorbed by the environment surrounding the system. Included are both reactive materials (those which enter into a chemical reaction with other stable or unstable materials) arid unstable materials (those which in a pure state or as normally produced decompose or undergo violent changes). 

In general, a theoretical evaluation of the hazardous chemical reactivity suggested in Box 2 is not sufficient by itself. The standard practice is to perform screening tests (Boxes 3 and 5). 

Previous Page 2. identification of hazardous chemical reactivity... 

This report, Hazard Investigation Improving Reactive Hazard Management, by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), examines chemical process safety in the United States—specifically, hazardous chemical reactivity. Its objectives are to ... 

Several types of hazardous chemical reactivity, with 36 percent attributed to chemical incompatibility, 35 percent to runaway... 

---