Material Safety Data Sheet

SECTION 10 – Stability and Reactivity 

Chemical Stability: Stable under normal temperatures and pressures. 

Conditions to Avoid: Incompatible materials, contact with water, metals, excess heat, 

combustible materials, organic materials, oxidizers, amines, bases. 

Incompatibilities with Other Materials: Acetic anhydride, Acetone cyanhydrin, 

Acetone + Nitric acid, Acetone + Potassium dichromate, Acetonitrile + Sulphur 

trioxide, Acrolein, Acrylonitrile, Alcohols + Hydrogen peroxide, Allyl alcohol, Allyl 

and Aldehyde compounds, Allyl chloride, 2-Aminoethanol, Ammonium hydroxide, 

Ammonium iron(III) sulfate dodecahydrate, Ammonium triperchromate, Aniline + 

Glycerol + Nitrobenzene, Benzyl alcohol, Bromates + Metals, tert-Butyl-m-xylene + 

Nitric acid, 1-Chloro-2,3-epoxypropane, Bromine pentafluoride, n-Butyraldehyde, 

Cesium acetylene carbide, 4-Chloronitrobenzene + Sulphur trioxide, Copper, 

Dichloromethane + Ethanol + Nitrate/nitrite, 2-Cyano-4-nitrobenzenediazonium 

hydrogen sulphate, 2-Cyano-2-propanol, Chlorine trifluoride, Chlorosulfonic acid 

(Cyanides), Cycolpentadiene, Cyclopentanone oxime, 1,3-Diazidobenzene, 

Diethylamine, Cuprous nitride, Diisobutylene, Ephchlorohydrin, Ethylene 

cyanohydrin, 

Ethylene diamine, Ethylene glycol, Dimethoxydinitroanthraquinone, 

4-Dimethylaminobenzaldehyde, 2,5-Dinitro-3-methylbenzoic acid + Sodium azide, 

1,5- 

Dinitronaphthalene + Sulphur, Ethoxylated nonylphenol, Fulminates, Halides, 

Hexalithium disilicide, Ethylenimine, Other acids, Iodine heptafluoride, Metals, 

Isoprene, 

Hydrofluoric acid, Hydrogen peroxide, Metal acetylides or carbides, Metal chlorates, 

Metal perchlorates, 4-Methuylpyridine, Nitramide, Nitric acid + Organic materials, 

Nitric acid + Toluene, Nitrites, Nitroaryl bases and derivatives, Nitrobenzene, 

3-Nitrobenzenesulfonic acid, Nitromethane, N-Nitromethylamine, 4-Nitrotoluene, 

Permanganates, Phosphorus, Phosphorus(III) oxide, Poly(silylene), Mercuric nitride, 

Mesityl oxide, P-Nitrotoluene, Pentasilver trihydroxydiaminophosphate, 

Perchlorates, Permanganates + Benzene, Phosphorus isocyanate, Picrates, Potassium 

t-butoxide, Potassium, 3-Propynol, Potassium chlorate, beta-Propiolactone, 

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Propylene oxide, Pyridine, Rubidium acetylene carbide and Sodium, Silver 

permanganates, Silver peroxochromate, Sodium, Sodium carbonate, Sodium 

tetrahydroborate, Sodium thiocyanate, Sucrose, Tetramethylbenzenes, 1,2,4,5-

Tetrazine, Thallium(I) azidodithiocarbonate, 

1,3,5-Trinitrosohexahydro-1,3,5-triazine, 

Water, Zinc Iodide. Carbonates, sulfides, sulphites, carbides, chlorates.  

Warning: It is fairly easy to produce the dangerous anhydrousperchloric acid 

from either its salt soritsaqueoussolutionsby heating with high boiling acids and 

dehydrating agent such as sulphuric acid and phosphorus pentoxide.

 

Hazardous Decomposition Products: Oxides of sulphur. 

Hazardous Polymerization: Has not been reported. 

Reaction Product(s): Hydrogen is generated by the action of the acid on most metals.