Sodium Chlorite is hygroscopic chemical. It is corrosive to skin and/or metals. Sodium Chlorite is an oxidizing agent. It can react with acids to form spontaneously explosive chlorine dioxide gas [ClO2]. Yoyo Chemicals manufactures Sodium Chlorite.
Yoyo Chemicals also manufactures wide range of salts of persulphate and thiocyanates. Sodium Chlorite reacts with ammonia to produce ammonium chlorite, which is shock-sensitive. Finely divided metallic or organic substances in dry mixture with chlorites are highly flammable and may be ignited on friction. The chemical is also known by the name of Sodium chlorite.
