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Laboratory Acid and Base Chemical Cap Color Chart: Lab Chemical Bottles If You SEE These Bottles Look For The CAP Color

This guide provides a color chart for identifying common laboratory acid and base bottles based on cap color. Red caps indicate nitric acid, which is an oxidizer and requires extreme caution. Yellow caps indicate sulfuric acid, black caps indicate perchloric acid, and blue caps indicate hydrochloric acid. All acids should be stored separately from bases such as ammonia, indicated by green caps. Users are advised to exercise caution and verify contents due to potential misuse or reuse of containers.

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Laboratory Acid and Base Chemical Cap Color Chart: Lab Chemical Bottles If You SEE These Bottles Look For The CAP Color

This guide provides a color chart for identifying common laboratory acid and base bottles based on cap color. Red caps indicate nitric acid, which is an oxidizer and requires extreme caution. Yellow caps indicate sulfuric acid, black caps indicate perchloric acid, and blue caps indicate hydrochloric acid. All acids should be stored separately from bases such as ammonia, indicated by green caps. Users are advised to exercise caution and verify contents due to potential misuse or reuse of containers.

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  • Laboratory Acid & Base Safety: Provides important safety guidelines for handling laboratory acids and bases using a color cap system, including warnings and storage instructions.

Laboratory Acid and Base Chemical Cap Color Chart

IF YOU Lab Chemical DISCLAIMER – This guide is intended as a


general guide. Users should exercise
SEE Bottles extreme caution handling this containers.
Remember that containers may have
THESE contain different chemicals with different
hazards due to reuse or misuse. Users
BOTTLES should verify correct contents through
testing or other confirmation method.
LOOK Sweetser & Associates is not liable for use
FOR THE of this guide.

CAP
COLOR Corroded nitric acid cap
USE EXTREME CAUTION

Store Store

Separate Separate
Red Yellow Black Blue Brown Green

Nitric Sulfuric Perchloric Hydrochloric Glacial acetic Ammonia


acid acid acid acid acid (BASE)
VERIFY IF OXIDIZER SEPARATE KEEP ACIDS AWAY
WEAK AND STRONG ACIDS
Sweetser & Associates
2009

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