Air purifying respirators do not protect workers in oxygen-deficient atmospheres. Maintain eye wash fountain and quick-drench facilities in work area. Clear, colorless syrupy liquid. Miscible in all proportions in water. Stable under ordinary conditions of use and storage.
Substance can supercool without crystallizing.
Phosphorus oxides may form when heated to decomposition. Liberates explosive hydrogen gas when reacting with chlorides and stainless steel. Can react violently with sodium tetrahydroborate. Exothermic reactions with aldehydes, amines, amides, alcohols and glycols, azo-compounds, carbamates, esters, caustics, phenols and cresols, ketones, organophosphates, epoxides, explosives, combustible materials, unsaturated halides, and organic peroxides. It also forms toxic fumes with cyanides, sulfide, fluorides, organic peroxides, and halogenated organics.