Sodium acetate, acetic anhydride combustibility

A mixture of ethanol and acetic anhydride detonated and the compounds combusted causing a fire when sodium hydrogensulphate was introduced into the mixture by mistake. The acid nature of this salt obviously catalysed this alcoholysis. 

CHROMIUM TRIHYDROXIDE (308-14-1) CrH204 A powerful oxidizer. Violent reaction with many materials, including reducing agents (explosion) hydrides, nitrides, and sulfides acetic acid, acetic anhydride acetone, alcohols, alkalis, alkali metals, ammonia, anthracene, arsenic, combustible materials dimethylformamide, ethers, ethyl alcohol fumes (ignition) finely divided metals hydrogen sulfide sulfuric acid organic matter peroxyformic acid, phosphorus, pyridine, selenium, sodium, sulfur, and other oxidizable materials. 

MERCURY(n) NITRATE (10045-94-0, anhydrous 7783-34-8, monohydrate) Hg(N03)2 H,0 Noncombustible solid. Light sensitive. A powerful oxidizer accelerates the burning of combustible materials. Violent reaction, or may form explosive materials, with reducing agents, including hydrides, nitrides, phosphorus, stannous chloride, and sulfides alkyl esters (forms explosive alkyl nitrates) combustible materials (especially if finely divided), phosphinic acid, hypophosphoric acid, metal powders petroleiun hydrocarbons. Forms heat- and/or shock-sensitive compounds with acetylene (forms explosive mercmy acetylide), ethanol and other alcohols (may form explosive mercury fulminates), ferrocene, isobutene, phosphine gas (forms heat- and shock-sensitive precipitate) potassiiun cyanide, sulfur. Incompatible with strong acids, acetic anhydride, ammonia, ammonium hexacyanofenate(II), organic azides, citric acid, hydrazinium perchlorate, isopropyl chlorocarbonate, nitrosyl perchlorate, sodium thiosulfate, sulfamic acid, thiocyanates, hydrozoic acid, methyl isocyanoacetate, sodium peroxyborate, trinitrobenzoic acid, urea nitrate. Aqueous solution corrodes metals. 

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