Mercury oxide combustion

Fire Hazards - Flash Poitu Not flammable Flammable Limits in Air (%) Not flammable Fire Extinguishing Agents Not pertinent Fire Extinguishing Agents Not To Be Used Not pertinent Special Hazards of Combustion Products Smoke may contain toxic mercury or mercury oxide fumes Behavior in Fire Not pertinent Ignition Temperature Not pertinent Electrical Hazard Not pertinent Burning Rate Not pertinent. 

The following section takes a closer look at specific reactions that involve metals. These include oxidation, combustion, reactions between mercury and other metals, and reactions between metals and electricity. Interactions between metals and acids and bases will also be examined. 

BENSULFOID (7704-34-9) Combustible solid (flash point 405°F/207°C). Finely divided dry materia forms explosive mixture with air. The vapor reacts violently with lithium carbide. Reacts violently with many substances, including strong oxidizers, aluminum powders, boron, bromine pentafluoride, bromine trifluoride, calcium hypochlorite, carbides, cesium, chlorates, chlorine dioxide, chlorine trifluoride, chromic acid, chromyl chloride, dichlorine oxide, diethylzinc, fluorine, halogen compounds, hexalithium disilicide, lampblack, lead chlorite, lead dioxide, lithium, powdered nickel, nickel catalysis, red phosphorus, phosphorus trioxide, potassium, potassium chlorite, potassium iodate, potassium peroxoferrate, rubidium acetylide, ruthenium tetraoxide, sodium, sodium chlorite, sodium peroxide, tin, uranium, zinc, zinc(II) nitrate, hexahydrate. Forms heat-, friction-, impact-, and shock-sensitive explosive or pyrophoric mixtures with ammonia, ammonium nitrate, barium bromate, bromates, calcium carbide, charcoal, hydrocarbons, iodates, iodine pentafluoride, iodine penloxide, iron, lead chromate, mercurous oxide, mercury nitrate, mercury oxide, nitryl fluoride, nitrogen dioxide, inorganic perchlorates, potassium bromate, potassium nitride, potassium perchlorate, silver nitrate, sodium hydride, sulfur dichloride. Incompatible with barium carbide, calcium, calcium carbide, calcium phosphide, chromates, chromic acid, chromic... 

MERCURY OXIDE (21908-53-2) A strong oxidizer. Violent reaction with reducing agents, acetyl nitrate, diboron tetrafluoride, disulfur dichloride, combustible materials, fuels, hydrazine hydrate, hydrogen peroxide, hydrogen trisulfide, hypophosphorous acid, methanethiol, phospham. sodium-potassium alloy, sulfur, sulfur trioxide. Incompatible with alcohols, alkali metals, ammonium nitrate, diboron tetrafluoride, hydrazinium nitrate, hydrogen sulfide, nitroalkanes, rubidium acetylide, selenium oxychloride. Forms heat-, friction-, or shock-sensitive explosives with anilinium perchlorate, chlorine, phosphorus, sulfur, magnesium, potassium, sodium-potassium alloy. May increase the explosive or thermal sensitivity of nitromethane, nitroethane, 1-nitropropane and other lower nitroalkanes, silver azide, hydrazinium perchlorate. Slowly decomposes on exposure to air. 

Acetylene, acids, alcohols, halogens, hydrazine, mercury, oxidizers, selenium, sulfur Acids, ammonia, combustible materials, fluorine, hydrocarbons, metals, organic materials, sugars... 

Incompatibilities and Reactivities Strong oxidizers, combustible materials, heat [Note Detonates on contact with mercury fulminate.] ... 

In combustion systms, mercury is oxidized by kinetically controlled reactions. Chlorine species promotes homogeneous oxidation of mercury (Pavlish et al., 2003). Calcium likely reacts with chlorine during combustion and its high concentrations may have a reducing effect on the positive influence of chlorine in mercury oxidation (Yang et al., 2007). The presence of fly ash and sorbents promotes heterogeneous oxidation of mercury. 

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