| Chemical | Not compatible with |
| Acetic acid | Chromic acid, nitric acid, hydroxyl compounds, ethylene glycol, perchloric acid, peroxides, permanganates |
| Acetylene | Chlorine, bromine, copper, fluorine, silver, mercury |
| Alkali & alkaline earth metals | Water, carbon tetrachloride or other chlorinated, hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide, halogens |
| Ammonia (anhydrous) | Mercury (in manometers, for example), chlorine, calcium hypochlorite, iodine, bromine, hydrofluoric acid (anhydrous) |
| Ammonium nitrate | Acids, powdered metals, flammable liquids, chlorates, nitrites, sulfur, finely divided organic or combustible materials |
| Aniline | Aniline, nitric acid, hydrogen peroxide |
| Arsenic materials | Any reducing agent |
| Azides | Acids |
| Bromine | See Chlorine |
| Calcium oxide | Water |
| Carbon (activated) | Calcium hypochlorite, all oxidizing agents |
| Carbon tetrachloride | Sodium |
| Chromic acid | Acetic acid, naphthalene, camphor, glycerol, alcohol chromium trioxide flammable liquids in general |
| Chlorine | Ammonia, acetylene, butadiene, butane, methane, propane(or other petroleum gases), hydrogen, sodium carbide, benzene, finelydivided metals, turpentine |
| Chlorine dioxide | Ammonia, methane, phosphine, hydrogen sulfide |
| Copper | Acetylene, hydrogen peroxide |
| Cumene hydroperoxide | Acids (organic or inorganic) |
| Cyanides | Acids |
| Flammable liquids | Ammonium nitrate, chromic acid, hydrogen peroxide, halogens |
| Fluorine | Everything |
| Hydrocarbons (such as butane, benzene) | Fluorine, chlorine, bromine, chromic acid , sodium peroxide |
| Hydrocyanic acid | Nitric acid, alkali |
| Hydrofluoric acid (anhydrous) | Ammonia (aqueous or anhydrous) |
| Hydrogen peroxide | Copper, chromium, iron, most metals or their salts, alcohols, acetone, organic materials, aniline,nitromethane, combustible materials |
| Hydrogen sulfide | Fuming nitric acid, oxidizing gases |
| Hypochlorites | Acids, activated carbon |
| Iodine | Acetylene, ammonia (aqueous or anhydrous), hydrogen |
| Mercury | Acetylene, fulminic acid, ammonia |
| Nitrates | Sulfuric acid |
| Nitric acid | Acetic acid, aniline, chromic acid, hydrocyanic acid (concentrated) hydrogen sulfide, flammable liquids, flammable gases, copper,brass, any heavy metals |
| Nitrites | Acids |
| Nitroparaffins | Inorganic bases, amines |
| Oxalic acid | Silver, mercury |
| Oxygen | Oils, grease, hydrogen, flammable liquids, solids, gases |
| Perchloric acid | Acetic anhydride, bismuth and its alloys, alcohol, paper, wood, grease, oils |
| Peroxides, organic | Acids (organic or mineral), avoid friction, store cold |
| Phosphorus (white) | Air, oxygen, alkalis, reducing agents |
| Potassium | Carbon tetrachloride, carbon dioxide, water |
| Potassium chlorate | Sulfuric and other acids |
| Potassium perchlorate | (see Sulfuric and other acids also chlorates) |
| Potassium permanganate | Glycerol, ethylene glycol, benzaldehyde, sulfuric acid |
| Selenides | Reducing agents |
| Silver | Acetylene, oxalic acid, tartartic acid, ammonium compounds, fulminic acid |
| Sodium | Carbon tetrachloride, carbon dioxide, water |
| Sodium nitrite | Ammonium nitrate and other ammonium salts |
| Sodium peroxide | Ethyl or methyl alcohol, glacial acetic acid, acetic anhydride, benzaldehyde, carbon disulfide, glycerin, ethylene glycol, ethyl acetate,methyl acetate, furfural |
| Sulfides | Acids |
| Sulfuric acid | Potassium chlorate, potassium perchlorate, potassium permanganate (similar compounds of light metals,such as sodium, lithium) |
| Tellurides | Reducing agents |