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This compilation has been prepared and revised to give access to a wide and up-to-date selection of documented information to research students, practising chemists, safety officers and others concerned with the safe handling and use of reactive chemicals. This will allow ready assessment of the likely potential for reaction hazards which may be associated with an existing or proposed chemical compound or reaction system.
A secondary, longer-term purpose is to present the information in a way which will, as far as possible, bring out the causes of, and interrelationships between, apparently disconnected facts and incidents. This is designed to encourage an increased awareness of potential chemical reactivity hazards in school, college and university teaching laboratories, and to help to dispel the relative ignorance of such matters which is still in evidence in this important area of safety training during the formative years of technical education.
Others involved in a more general way with the storage, handling, packing, transport and distribution of chemicals, or emergencies related thereto, are likely to find information of relevance to their activities.
This Handbook includes all information which had become available to the Editor by the end of 2004 on the reactivity hazards of individual elements or compounds, either alone or in combination. Appropriate source references are included to give access to more expansive information than that compressed into the necessarily abbreviated text entries.
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