Safety in the Chemical Laboratory

For detailed discussion, see Bretherick s Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards, Butterworths, London, 1990, Sax s Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials, 8th edn, van Nostrand Reinhold, NY 1992. 

The laboratory should at least be well ventilated and safety glasses should be worn, particularly during distillation and manipulations carried out under reduced pressure or elevated temperatures. With this in mind we have endeavoured to warn users of this book whenever greater than usual care is needed in handling chemicals. As a general rule, however, all chemicals which users are unfamiliar with should be treated with extreme care and assumed to be highly flammable and toxic. The safety of others in a 

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A valuable report, oontaining many references to cognate literature, is given In The Origins and Prevention oj Laboratory Accidents, 1949 (Royal Institute of Chemistry, London, W.C. 1). See also Guide for Safety in the Chemical Laboratory, 1966 (Van Nostrand Macmillan). 

G. Wypych (Ed.), Solvents Database on CD Rom, William Andrew Publishing, LLC 2001. ISBN 0815514638. SAFETY IN THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY... 

Manufacturing Chemists Association (1972) Guide for Safety in the Chemical Laboratory, Van Nostrand Remhold, New York. 

Young, J.A. (ed.) (1991) Improving Safety in the Chemical Laboratory A Practical Guide, Wiley, Chichester. 

N T Freeman and J Whitehead Introduction to Safety in the Chemical Laboratory, Academic Press, London, 1982... 

Ammonium Peroxodisulfate, HgNjOgS A mixt with A1 and W may explode H.A.J. Pieters et al, Safety In The Chemical Laboratory , Academic Press, London (1957)... 

Guide for Safety in the Chemical Laboratory, Manufacturing Chemists Association. 

Safety in the Chemical Laboratory, Collected reprinted articles from J. Chem. Educ., Renfrew, M. M. (Ed.), Vol. IV, 1981... 

Conrad Schuerch, Safe Practice in the Chemistry Laboratory A Safety Manual, in Safety in the Chemical Laboratory, v. 3, Norman V. Steere, ed. (Easton, PA Division of Chemical Education, American Chemical Society, 1974), pp. 22-25. 

Seaton, W. H., "Group Contribution Method for Predicting the Potential of a Chemical Composition to Cause an Explosion," Safety in the Chemical Laboratory, 66, No. 5, A137 (1989). 

N. V. Steere, Safety in the Chemical Laboratory, Vol. 3, Chemical Rubber Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1973. 

J. Young, Editor, Improving Safety in the Chemical Laboratory—A Practical Guide, 2nd... 

Violent reaction between Al chlorinated hydrocarbons) 92)MCA General Safety Comm, "Guide for Safety in the Chemical Laboratory , Van Nostrand, NY (1954) 234 pp (Includes a tabulation of fire-hazard props of flammable liquids, gases volatile solids)... 

Creyghton, "Safety in the Chemical Laboratory , Academic Press, New York, 2nd ed (1957), 305pp lll)Sax (1957) 112)F.A.Patty,... 

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