ABSTRACT
A reactive material is a material which can undergo further reaction either with itself or another material or compound under environmentally-mediated conditions. Examples of these types of reactions include polymerization, hydrolysis and oxidation. Since these reactions can occur in the workplace under ambient conditions or even on sampling media, the sampling and subsequent analysis of reactive materials collected in the work environment have been a problem for industrial hygienists and industrial hygiene chemists. Much work has been done to address this problem, but it is still far from solved as new reactive chemicals join other reactive materials in the workplace.
