Aarnav
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Small fire while using BBr3
Although literature says BBr3 is non pyrophobic chemical, observed little fire while quenching the used Syringe with methanol.
Can any one explain the reason
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clearly_not_atara
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BBr3 reacts very enthusiastically with any source of hydroxyl groups. It probably heated up the methanol enough that it caught fire.
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byko3y
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Pyrophoric usually means "liable to ignite spontaneously on exposure to air". You did not expose the coumpound to air - you reacted it with some other
substance, methanol, which is described as "highly flammable" by CDC, although its autoignition temeperature in air is as high as 470°C, so ignition
is improbable at atmospheric pressure.
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PHILOU Zrealone
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Pyro-PHOBIC (scared of fire) he wrote....not Pyro-PHORIC (bringing fire/setting into fire)
Hoppefully BBr3 is not chemo-phobic    
PH Z (PHILOU Zrealone)
"Physic is all what never works; Chemistry is all what stinks and explodes!"-"Life that deadly disease, sexually transmitted."(W.Allen)
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