CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #75: NITRIC OXIDE
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Nitric oxide is a toxic, oxidizing, reactive, corrosive, irritating, nonflammable, colorless gas with a sharp, acrid, pungent, irritating odor. It is used to manufacture a wide variety of chemicals, most notably nitric acid. It also is used as a bleaching agent, which is a function of its oxidizing power. It is so toxic that it is shipped in containers with no safety relief devices. Once released from its container into the atmosphere, it reacts chemically with the oxygen in the air to convert to nitrogen dioxide and nitrogen tetroxide. These two gases plus nitric oxide are members of a group of gases known as the nitrogen oxides.
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