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Examples of chemicals that may explode when subjected to heat, shock or friction: - Picrates, especially salts of transition and heavy metals such as nickel, lead, mercury, copper, and zinc
- Picric acid, when dry
- Azides, including metal, nonmetal, and organic azides
- Chlorite salts of metals, such as silver chlorite, mercuric chlorite
- Diazo compounds
- Diazonium salts, when dry
- Polynitro compounds such as tetranitromethane
- Dinitroacetonitrile, and trinitrobenzene
Examples of chemicals that form explosive peroxides over time after exposure to air:
- Diisopropyl ether (isopropyl ether), Diethyl ether (ether)
- Divinyl ether, Divinyl acetylene, Vinylidene chloride,
- Sodium amide, Potassium amide, and Potassium metal