Explosive or potentially explosive reaction with ammonia, cesium fluoride + fluorocarboxylic acids, cesium heptafluoropropoxide, 1- or 2-fluoriminoperfluoropropane, graphite, halocarbons (e.g., carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, perfluorocyclobutane, iodoform, 1,2-dichlorotetrafluoroethane), liquid hydrocarbons (e.g., anthracene, turpentine), hydrogen, hydrogen + oxygen, hydrogen fluoride + seleninyl fluoride + heat, nitric acid, silver cyanide, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, sodium acetate, sodium bromate, stainless steel, water.
Reacts to form explosive products with alkanes + oxygen (forms peroxides), cyanoguanidine, perchloric acid (forms fluorine perchlorate gas), potassium chlorate (forms fluorine perchlorate gas), potassium hydroxide (forms potassium trioxide). Forms explosive mixtures with acetonitrile + chlorine fluoride, ice.
Ignition or violent reaction on contact with acetylene, ceramic materials, covalent halides (e.g., chromyl chloride, phosphorus pentachloride, phosphorus trichloride, phosphorus trifluoride, boron trichloride, silicon tetrachloride), halogens (e.g., bromine, iodine, chlorine + spark or heating to 100°C), dicyanogen, gaseous hydrocarbons (e.g., town gas, methane, benzene), hydrogen halide gases or concentrated solutions (e.g., hydrogen bromide, hydrogen chloride, hydrogen iodide, hydrogen fluoride), metal acetylides and carbides (e.g., monocesium acetylide, cesium acetylide, lithium acetylide, rubidium acetylide, tungsten carbide, ditungsten carbide, zirconium dicarbide, uranium dicarbide), metal cyano complexes [e.g., potassium hexacyanoferrate(II), lead hexacyanoferrate(III), potassium hexacyanoferrate(III)], metal hydrides (e.g., copper hydride, potassium hydride, sodium hydride), metal iodides (e.g., lead iodide, calcium iodide, mercury iodide, potassium iodide), metals, metal salts, metal silicides (e.g., calcium disilicide, lithium hexasilicide), nickel(IV) oxide, nonmetals (e.g., boron, yellow or red phosphorus, selenium, tellurium, silicon, carbon, charcoal, sulfur), oxygenated organic compounds (e.g., methanol, ethanol, 3-methyl butanol, acetaldehyde, trichloroacetaldehyde, acetone, lactic acid, benzoic acid, salicylic acid, ethyl acetate, methyl borate), nonmetal oxides (e.g., arsenic trioxide, nitrogen oxide, dinitrogen tetroxide), oxygen + polymers [e.g., phenol-formaldehyde resins (bakelite), polyacrylonitrile-butadiene (Buna N), polyamides (nylons), polychloropene (neoprene), polyethylene, polytrifluoropropylmethylsiloxane, polyvinylchloride-vinyl acetate (Tygon), polyvinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropylene (Viton), polyurethane foam, polymethyl methacrylate (Perspex), polytetrafluooethylene (Teflon)], sulfides (e.g., antimony trisulfide, carbon disulfide vapor, chromium (II) sulfide, hydrogen sulfide, barium sulfide, potassium sulfide, zinc sulfide, molybdenum sulfide), xenon + catalysts (e.g., nickel fluoride, silver difluoride, nickel(III) oxide, silver (I) oxide).
Incandescent reaction with boron nitride, hexalithium disilicide + heat, metal borides, metal oxides (e.g., nickel(II) oxide, alkali metal oxides, alkaline earth oxides), nitrogenous bases (e.g., aniline, dimethylamine, pyridine), gallic acid.
Incompatible with cesium heptafluoro propoxide, cyanoguanidine, halocarbons, hexalithium disilicide, seleninyl fluoride, hydrogen sulfide, oxygen, sodium acetate, sodium bromate, sodium dicyanamides, most organic matter, H-containing molecules, oxides of S, N, P, alkali metals,and alkaline earths. It reacts violently with halogen acids, hydrazine, ClO2, coke, cyanamide, cyanides, KNO3, (PbO + glycerol), CCl4, silicides, silicates, trinitromethane, alkenes, alkyl benzenes, CS2, Cr(OCl)2, Al, Tl, Sn, Sb, As, natural gas, liquid air, perfluoropropionyl fluoride, polyvinyl chloride acetate. Many reactions go on even at <−160°. Reacts with water or steam to produce heat and toxic and corrosive fumes. Used as one component of liquid rocket fuel and in chemical lasers. See also FLUORIDES.
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