The driving concern for chemical storage is assuring the compatibility of chemicals if they should inadvertently mix. To avoid dangerous conditions, separate incompatible chemicals from each other.

Purpose: The chemical interactions that cause drug incompatibility in solutions, with emphasis on the acid-base and ionized-nonionized forms of organic, weak, electrolyte drugs, are examined.

In some instances where an incompatible chemical has been mistakenly introduced into the waste stream, a slow reaction takes place inside the bottle generating internal pressure. Whilst we make every ...