Chlorine azide

<h2 id="preparation-and-handling">Preparation and handling</h2>
<p>Chlorine azide is prepared by passing <a href="/facts/Chlorine_gas/y27UwYBM">chlorine gas</a> over <a href="/facts/Silver_azide/9HHuh7EG">silver azide</a>, or by an addition of <a href="/facts/Acetic_acid/uyBKA2Pd">acetic acid</a> to a solution of <a href="/facts/Sodium_hypochlorite/sp99uHHQ">sodium hypochlorite</a> and <a href="/facts/Sodium_azide/4gwc2jzu">sodium azide</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
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<h2 id="explosive-characteristics">Explosive characteristics</h2>
<p>Chlorine azide is extremely sensitive. It may explode, sometimes even without apparent provocation; it is thus too sensitive to be used commercially unless first diluted in solution. Chlorine azide reacts explosively with <a href="/facts/1,3-butadiene/j9W2LxGv">1,3-butadiene</a>, <a href="/facts/Ethane/BGCzc6yh">ethane</a>, <a href="/facts/Ethene/QMNBYLYn">ethene</a>, <a href="/facts/Methane/kBHneYnh">methane</a>, <a href="/facts/Propane/E0b23KGh">propane</a>, <a href="/facts/Phosphorus/27xCeIqs">phosphorus</a>, <a href="/facts/Silver_azide/9HHuh7EG">silver azide</a>, and <a href="/facts/Sodium/eYuSPu2V">sodium</a>. On contact with <a href="/facts/Acid/FySU18n1">acid</a>, chlorine azide decomposes, evolving toxic and corrosive <a href="/facts/Hydrogen_chloride/7Wzkhomd">hydrogen chloride</a> gas.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
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<h2 id="regulatory-information">Regulatory information</h2>
<p>Its shipment is subject to strict reporting requirements and regulations by the <a href="/facts/US_Department_of_Transportation/qgNCJ1tF">US Department of Transportation</a>.
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Frierson, W. J.; Browne, A. W. (1943). "Chlorine Azide. II. Interaction of Chlorine Azide and Silver Azide. Azino Silver Chloride, N3AgCl". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 65 (9): 1698–1700. Bibcode:1943JAChS..65.1698F. doi:10.1021/ja01249a013. <a href="/wiki/Journal_of_the_American_Chemical_Society" target="_blank">/wiki/Journal_of_the_American_Chemical_Society</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Frierson, W. J.; Kronrad, J.; Browne, A. W. (1943). "Chlorine Azide, ClN3. I.". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 65 (9): 1696–1698. Bibcode:1943JAChS..65.1696F. doi:10.1021/ja01249a012. <a href="/wiki/Journal_of_the_American_Chemical_Society" target="_blank">/wiki/Journal_of_the_American_Chemical_Society</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Raschig, F. (1908). "Über Chlorazid N3Cl". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft. 41 (3): 4194–4195. doi:10.1002/cber.190804103130. <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/1426305" target="_blank">https://zenodo.org/record/1426305</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>CID 61708 from PubChem <a href="https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/61708" target="_blank">https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/61708</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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