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(nitrates, oxides, and particulary sulfates) and sulfides are reduced violently or explosively (undergo a thermite reaction) on heating an intimate mixture with aluminum powder to a suitably high temperture to initiate the reaction. A violent or explosive reaction can occur upon heating when calcium sulfate is mixed with aluminum powder.