The last thing listed behind the stock number is the hazardous class, if any, of the item. The Shipping class Legend follows. If any of these are listed after a chemical, that chemical is hazardous, but most of them may be shipped as a limited quantity with no hazmat. Those that can are as listed below in the color coding.

DW=Dangerous When Wet; SC=Spontaneously Combustible;
OX=Oxidizer; FS=Flammable Solid; FL=Flammable Liquid; PM=Poisonous Material;
CM=Corrosive Material; AG=Aerosol Gas; ORM=ORM-D (cannot be shipped with dissimilar hazmat items, but is not hazardous itself)

For our safety as well as yours, we ship everything according to applicable regulations. The DOT has no sense of humor whatsoever!

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Cab-O-Sil - fumed colloidal silica, anti-cake agent - Stock #C125
This material is about as dense as cigarette smoke. 1% added to flash compounds will increase burn rates simply by increasing the web area thus allowing more oxygen to permeate the mix.. 1% also helps repel moisture. Also used to thicken adhesives and as a heat resistant component. Very popular chemical oxidizer anti-cake agent.

$2.00/oz (approx. 1 qt in volume)                          $125.00/10 lb bag (ship wt 16lbs)

Calcium Carbonate - powder, neutralizer, Used as a color agent for red/orange star and strobe mixtures, also an additive in adhesives (thickening agent), orange flames - Stock #C126

Calcium Chloride - Stock #C126B
99% pure, uncoated. Dissolve in Methanol to make orange color alcohol flames.

Calcium Nitrate, [Ca(NO3)2] nitrocalcite, lime nitrate. Stock # C126C - OX

Granular/lumpy material crushes easily for use. Popularly used as an oxidizer in orange color flame mixtures. Dissolved in methanol for color alcohol flames (Ghost Mines), lamp oil, etc. Also used in explosives, fertilizers, matches and other pyrotechnics, corrosion inhibitor in diesel fuels, etc.. Highly soluble in water, freely soluble in methanol, acetone and ethanol. No ATFE required to purchase, no quantity restrictions.

Calcium Silicide (calcium silicon), granular - Stock #C127 - SC

Used to make smoke comps, thermites, and mixed with iron oxide for self heating compositions for heating canned foods.

Calcium Sulfate - anhydrous, [CaSO4] - 200 mesh - Stock #C127A
Beautiful Orange and redish orange flames in strobe mixtures. Also dissolved in methanol for color alcohol flame lamps.

Carbospheres - Conductive carbon - 22% -325 mesh - Stock #CCARB

Hollow microspheres, very light weight manufactured for a paint additive in radar absorbing coatings for the stealth aircraft. It is conductive and can be used in conductive mixtures. Mixed with iron powders, it produces beautiful branching yellow sparks. Once this is gone, it's gone!! The manufacturer is no longer in business.

$5.25

$24.40

Sprcial Sale           $4.25/lb in 50 lb UPS drums ($212.50 total) (ship wt 65lbs)

Castor Oil - ricinoleic acid, chainlinking agent - Stock #C1271
Used in composite formulations using Polybutadienes and polyesters to chemically chainlink (structurally bond) the composite matrix. Only a few drops required. Goes a long way.

Cellulose Acetate - binder/resin, acetone and MEKsoluble - Stock #C127B
Dissolve 1oz per quart of Acetoneor MEK for pressed composites; 1.5oz/qt of Acetone for igniters and primes; 3.5oz/qt of Acetone for concentrated butyrate. Dries clear or can be colored with dye. One pound will make up to 4 gallons of clear binder. Highly favored by Gary Purrington.

Charcoal, Activated, wood microfine -100 mesh    Stock #C129 - ORM
Open cell structure accepts oxidizers for a more homogenous mixture. Also used in the same way to trap/filter out impurities from solutions.

    

Charcoal - hardwood, air float, microfine - Stock #C130 - ORM
Our largest selling charcoal. Used extensively in fireworks and propellant compositions. All of these hardwood charcoals are made from mixed hardwoods.

    

Charcoal - hardwood, granular, 6 mesh - Stock #C1326 - ORM
Mesh sizes 6 to 80 are used to create gold/orange sparks and tails.

    

Charcoal - hardwood, granular, 10 mesh - Stock #C1321 - ORM
Mesh sizes 6 to 80 are used to create gold/orange sparks and tails.

    

Chlorowax - chlorinated paraffin, chlorine donor (68-70%) - Stock #C132A
Use in powder form or it can be dissolved i acetone, alcohol or Xylene, or melted for use. Melted chlorowax cools to a rigid matrix. Good binding qualities.

Citric Acid - anhydrous, organic acid monohydrate (2-hydroxy-1,2,3 Propanetricarboxylic Acid)

Stock #C132B

Clay, Ceramic Fire Clay, 200 mesh, fine powder - Stock #C133

    

Clay, Bentonite, Fine powder (Sodium Aluminum Silicate) - Stock#C133B

     

Copper Acetate - cupric, Cu(C2H3O2)2H2O, powder (35% Cu)- Stock #C133CA - PM
For rich, deep blue flames.

    

Copper Carbonate - basic (cupric carbonate basic) [CuCO.C4(OH)2], fine powder - for blue flames (58% Cu)- Stock #C134
Neutralizer.

    

Copper Chloride (cuprous) [CuCl2] - powder, for blue flames (47% Cu)- Stock #C134A - currently out of stock
Dissolved in water for soaking pine cones and similar for blue flame firestarters.

Copper (II) Nitrate, [Cu(NO3)] cupric nitrate, 34% Cu. Stock # C134CN - OX

Combination color doner and oxidizer for blue colors. Also used as a burn rate catalyst in rocket propellants, air bag gas generators and other propellants. In pyrotechnics, besides being used as a burn rate catalyst, it is used to create blue and purple flame compositions. It is used in fungicides, herbicides, wood preservatives, ceramic colorants, mordant in textile dying, etc.. Freely soluble in water and in alcohols. No ATFE required to purchase - no quantity restrictions.

Copper Oxide - cupric, [CuO] black, fine powder (80% Cu)- Stock #C136
Propellant burn rate catalyst and blue flames. Excellent blues in composite stars and rocket propellants.

    

Copper Oxychloride - fine powder, [3CuO.CuCl2.3.5H2O] for blue flames (59% Cu)- Stock #C138 - PM

Substitute for copper chloride.

Copper Sulfate - [CuSO4-CuO] for blue color flames (40% Cu)- Stock #C140
Purportedly safe to use with Ammonium Perchlorate by Shimizu. Dissolve in methanol for color alcohol flames, in water for treating pine cones for blue color firestarters. Also used as a fungicide for plants and seed treatment.

Cryolite (Greenland Spar, sodium fluoaluminate), [Na3AlF6] powder, for yellow flames - Stock #C144

    

Curing Agent - Perkadox CH-50, dibenzoyl peroxide, 50% with dicyclohexyl phthalate. Stock # C144/CH50

A white/off white powder curative used as a polymerization initiator for plastics and resins. It is added in quantities of .5 to 5% to cure resins such as styrenes, polyesters (including thermoset resins), vinyl acetate, acrylonitrile, acryl esters, diallyl phthalate and other similar resins and/or combinations thereof. It is also used as an alternative for the more hazardous methyl ethyl ketone peroxide (MEKP). Heat and/or Perkadox 14S-FL (listed below) is applied to increase the (cure) rate of polymerization.

Powder replacement for the more hazardous, hard to get Methyl Ethyl Ketone Peroxide

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