To assist chemical manufacturers and warehouse managers on the legal requirements regarding substances that produce energy - mainly heat - by self-reaction or reaction with air and moisture. In addition to advice on identification and handling, it also provides guidance on the storage, manufacture and use of such.
Within the broader study, it also explores the issues of properties (chemical), labelling and general risk control (including transfer, processing, distillation, drying and milling or sieving). Extensively illustrated by photographs either depicting safely staged - although real - reactions, or with images captured in the aftermath of genuine (some fatal) tragedies to underscore the scale of the risk.
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