
Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards
- 7th Edition - September 25, 2006
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Peter Urben
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 2 3 4 0 - 8
Bretherick’s Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards is an assembly of all reported risks such as explosion, fire, toxic or high-energy events that result from chemical reacti… Read more

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Request a sales quoteBretherick’s Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards is an assembly of all reported risks such as explosion, fire, toxic or high-energy events that result from chemical reactions gone astray, with extensive referencing to the primary literature. It is designed to improve safety in laboratories that perform chemical synthesis and general research, as well as chemical manufacturing plants. Entries are ordered by empirical formula and indexed under both name(s) and Chemical Abstracts Registry Numbers. This two-volume compendium focuses on reactivity risks of chemicals, alone and in combination; toxicity hazards are only included for unexpected reactions giving volatile poisons
- Predict, avoid, and control reactivity danger with this latest edition of the leading guide
- Covers every chemical with documented information on reactive hazards; more than 5,000 entries on single elements or compounds, and 5,000 entries on the interactions between two or more compounds
- Includes five years of new reports, new references to the primary literature, and amplification to existing entries
- Links similar compounds or incidents that are not obviously related
Chemical engineers and other practicing chemists, safety officers, research students, chemistry teachers in schools, colleges & universities, and those involved in storage, handling, packing & transportation of chemicals.
Volume 1 - Introduction; Reactive chemical hazards; SPECIFIC CHEMICALS (Elements and compounds arranged in formula order) Volume 2 - CLASSES, GROUPS AND TOPICS (Entries arranged in alphabetical order); Source title abbreviations used in references; tabulated fire related data; Glossary of abbreviations and technical terms; Index of chemical names and synonyms used in section 1; Index of class, group and topic titles used in section 2; Index of section 2 titles classified by type; Index of CAS registry numbers vs serial numbers in section 1
- Edition: 7
- Published: September 25, 2006
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 2680
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9780080523408
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Peter Urben
Dr Peter Urben is a now retired organic chemist of initially academic, later industrial, background who has undertaken practical work in many fields, at milligram to tonne scale, over more than forty years, (even neglecting juvenile essays in pyrotechny and blasting).
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Consultants Courtaulds Chemicals, (Suisse) S.A., Warwickshire, UKRead Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards on ScienceDirect