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From: Neil Edwards <Neil.Edwards**At_Symbol_Here**LIU.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Storage for Acetic Anhydride
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:43:09 +0000
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I store my acetic anhydride in a corrosives storage cabinet, with each bottle tightly closed and sealed with tape.

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On Apr 21, 2016, at 6:40 PM, Debbie M. Decker > wrote:

Hi:

How would ya'll store acetic anhydride - flammable, corrosive, toxic, water reactive, toxic, and incompatible with acids, bases, alcohols, amines.

Yummy.

We've all been way down the rabbit hole around here without good consensus.

Thanks for your input.,

Debbie M. Decker, CCHO, ACS Fellow
Immediate Past Chair, Division of Chemical Health and Safety
University of California, Davis
(530)754-7964
(530)304-6728
dmdecker**At_Symbol_Here**ucdavis.edu

Birkett's hypothesis: "Any chemical reaction
that proceeds smoothly under normal conditions,
can proceed violently in the presence of an idiot."

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