Highly hazardous chemical
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A highly hazardous chemical is a substance classified by the American Occupational Safety and Health Administration as material that is both toxic and reactive and whose potential for human injury is high if released. Highly hazardous chemicals may cause cancer, birth defects, induce genetic damage, cause miscarriage, injury and death from relatively small exposures.
Highly hazardous chemicals include:
- Acrolein
- Acryloyl chloride
- Allyl chloride
- Ammonia
- Ammonium permanganate
- Ammonium perchlorate
- Arsine
- Benzoyl peroxide
- Bis(chloromethyl) ether
- Boron trifluoride
- Boron trichloride
- Bromine
- Bromine monochloride
- Bromine pentafluoride
- Bromine trifluoride
- Tert-Butyl hydroperoxide
- Carbonyl fluoride
- Chlorine
- Chlorine pentafluoride
- Chlorine trifluoride
- Chlorine dioxide
- Chloromethyl methyl ether
- Chloropicrin
- Cumene hydroperoxide
- Cyanogen
- Cyanogen chloride
- Cyanuric fluoride
- Diazomethane
- Diborane
- Dichlorosilane
- Diethylaluminium chloride
- Diethylzinc
- Nitrocellulose
- Phosgene
