CARBON TETRACHLORIDE

tĕˌtrəklôrˈīd or tetrachloromethanetĕˌtrəklôrˌəmĕthˈān, CCl4, colorless, poisonous, liquid organic compound that boils at 76.8 degrees Celsius. It is toxic when absorbed through the skin or when inhaled. It reacts at high temperatures to form the poisonous gas phosgene. Carbon tetrachloride is used in the production of Freon refrigerants, e.g., Freon-12 (dichlorodifluoromethane). Because it is not flammable and is a good solvent for fats, oils, and greases, it is often used commercially for dry cleaning and for degreasing metals. It is sometimes used in fire extinguishers, since its vapors are denser than air and serve to smother a flame. Its use in the home as a spot remover should be avoided because of its poisonous nature.

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books on: Carbon Tetrachloride  - 236 results

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The Environment Dictionary
Book by David D. Kemp; Routledge, 1998
Subjects: Environmental Sciences--Dictionaries, Pollution--Dictionaries
...would be to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions...Change 22: 265 91. CARBON TETRACHLORIDE (CCl 4 ) An industrial...chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Carbon tetrachloride has an ozone depletion...Production and use of carbon tetrachloride was phased out in 1996...
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Yearbook of International Environmental Law - Vol. 5
Book by Günther Handl, Lothar Gundling, Linda A. Malone, Philippe Sands, Craig M. Scott; Clarendon Press, 1995
Subjects: Environmental Law, International--Periodicals
...calculated level of his production of carbon tetrachloride in 1989, - he produces no carbon tetrachloride after 31 December 1994. In the light...production and importation of carbon tetrachloride may be permitted in the Community after...
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Antibiotics of Actinomycetes - Vol. 3
Book by Selman A. Waksman, Hubert A. Lechevalier; Williams & Wilkins, 1962
Subjects: Actinomycetales, Antibiotics
...from acetone on addition of carbon tetrachloride in the cold. Mitomycins A...carbon disulfide, carbon tetrachloride, ligroin, petroleum ether...soluble in benzene, carbon tetrachloride, and ether. Insoluble in...
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Chambers's Technical Dictionary
Book by C. F. Tweney, L. E. C. Hughes; Macmillan, 1958
Subjects: Technology--Dictionaries
...means of a screw. carbon silicide Chem...Besides iron and carbon, carbon steels...molybdenum, etc. carbon suboxide Chem...150 C. carbon tetrachloride Chem. . Tetrachloromethane...extinguishers. carbon tetrachloride fuse Elec. Eng...immersed in carbon tetrachloride; for use on high...
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Self-Experimenters: Sources for Study
Book by Arsen P. Fiks, Paul A. Buelow; Praeger, 2003
Subjects: Self-Experimentation In Medicine--Directories, Self-Experimentation In Medicine--History--Sources
...hookworms and the safety of carbon tetrachloride. Procedure: Experimenter...unrecorded amount of carbon tetrachloride capsules and tetrachlorethylene...laxative effect after carbon tetrachloride; no side effects after tetrachlorethylene...
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journal articles on: Carbon Tetrachloride  - 85 results

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Personal Exposure Meets Risk Assessment: A Comparison of Measured and Modeled Exposures and Risks in an Urban Community
Journal article by Devon C. Payne-Sturges, Thomas A. Burke, Patrick Breysse, Marie Diener-West, Timothy J. Buckley; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 112, 2004
Subjects: Financial disclosure, Risk management
...HAPs (e.g., benzene, carbon tetrachloride, and chloroform) and were...exposure results for benzene, carbon tetrachloride, methylene chloride, and...Chloroform, benzene, and carbon tetrachloride presented the highest median...
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An Assessment of Air Toxics in Minnesota
Journal article by Gregory C. Pratt, Kari Palmer, Chun Yi Wu, Fardin Oliaei, Cynthia Hollerbach, Mary Jean Fenske; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 108, 2000
...benzene, 1,3-butadiene, carbon tetrachloride, chromium, chloroform...benzene; 1,3-butadiene; carbon tetrachloride; chromium; formaldehyde...742 (60) Not monitored Carbon tetrachloride 1,230 (100) 22 (88...
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Children's Exposure to Volatile Organic Compounds as Determined by Longitudinal Measurements in Blood
Journal article by Ken Sexton, John L. Adgate, Timothy R. Church, David L. Ashley, Larry L. Needham, Gurumurthy Ramachandran, Ann L. Fredrickson, Andrew D. Ryan; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 113, 2005
Subjects: Children
...Blood levels of benzene, carbon tetrachloride, trichloroethene, and m...1-trichloroethane and carbon tetrachloride (0.42), benzene and...variability for benzene, carbon tetrachloride, styrene, toluene, trichloroethene...
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A Cancer Risk Assessment of Inner-City Teenagers Living in New York City and Los Angeles
Journal article by Sonja N. Sax, Deborah H. Bennett, Steven N. Chillrud, James Ross, Patrick L. Kinney, John D. Spengler; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 114, 2006
Subjects: Cancer--Health aspects, Hazardous substances--Health aspects, Risk assessment--Health aspects, United States. Environmental Protection Agency
...concentrations. The exceptions were carbon tetrachloride and MTBE in NYC and LA...2.68 11.27 100 3.30 Carbon tetrachloride 0.26 0.76 100 0.52...Benzene 3.64 20.7 49 1.45 Carbon tetrachloride 0.60 0.89 97 0.59 Chloroform...
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Outdoor, Indoor, and Personal Exposure to VOCs in Children
Journal article by John L. Adgate, Timothy R. Church, Andrew D. Ryan, Gurumurthy Ramachandran, Ann L. Fredrickson, Thomas H. Stock, Maria T. Morandi, Ken Sexton; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 112, 2004
Subjects: Children, University of Minnesota. School of Public Health
...significantly associated with higher carbon tetrachloride levels in H samples (point...risk limits for benzene, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, p-dichlorobenzene...measured concentrations of carbon tetrachloride, which were relatively constant...
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magazine articles on: Carbon Tetrachloride  - 39 results

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Collecting Nature
Magazine article; American Scholar, Vol. 67, Spring 1998
Subjects: Collectors (Persons)--Personal narratives, Collectors and collecting--Personal narratives
...piece of cotton saturated with carbon tetrachloride. "Carbon set," we called...Klots recommended liquid carbon tetrachloride, which is "not very poisonous...potassium cyanide and carbon tetrachloride, is that these poisons freeze...
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Toxic Avengers
Magazine article; Popular Science, Vol. 241, July 1992
Subjects: Bacteria, Environmental protection, Fungi, Hazardous substances, Microorganisms, R&D, Research & development, Technology, Waste disposal
...because its final byproducts--carbon dioxide and a burgeoning population...Washington have been contaminated with carbon tetrachloride, a carcinogenic compound used...will not only degrade carbon tetrachloride but will also convert potentially...
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Uncovering a Trail of Sheer Treachery
Magazine article by Jeriel S. Garland; Security Management, Vol. 38, May 1994
Subjects: Business intelligence--Equipment and supplies, Competitive intelligence--Equipment and supplies, Espionage--Equipment and supplies, Specialty chemicals
...Window can be used instead of Bestine, Freon, or carbon tetrachloride, to remove pressure-sensitive tapes. This application...adhesives that bleed when exposed to Bestine, Freon, carbon tetrachloride, or Liquid Window. In addition to alerting the...
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Water Worries
Magazine article by Ron Seely; Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal, Vol. 30, January 2007
Subjects: Cities, Drinking water, Problems, Water utilities
...serves a major city high school, the levels of carbon tetrachloride detected during one quarterly test in the year...a water tower, and failed to report levels of carbon tetrachloride that exceeded federal health standards in one city...
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Greener Golfing, Safer Dry Cleaning and Discreet Diving
Magazine article by Jonathan Rogers, Courtney Hibbard, Laura M. Hrastar; E, Vol. 13, March 2002
Subjects: Chlorination--Environmental aspects, Coral reefs and islands--Protection, Dry cleaning--Environmental aspects, Golf courses--Design and construction
...the toxic byproducts phosgene, vinyl chloride, carbon tetrachloride and trichloroacetic acid (TCA). Dr. Gina Solomon...spaces. Vinyl chloride is a proven carcinogen and carbon tetrachloride is a known liver toxin" TCA has been linked to...
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newspaper articles on: Carbon Tetrachloride  - 7 results

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Customs Stops Import of Ozone-Depleting Substances
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 30, 2009
Subjects: Carbon tetrachloride--International trade, Halons--International trade, Import regulations, Imports--Laws, regulations, etc.
...all over the country to stop any import of ozone depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons, halons, and carbon tetrachloride.These ozone-depleting substances are used in automobile and truck air conditioning units, refrigerators...
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Did Kenneth Kill Himself?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 30, 2005
Subjects: Actors, Actresses, Television programs
...Charlie Williams died after drinking a bottle of carbon tetrachloride in mysterious circumstances - a death that has...by misadventure, due to bronchial pneumonia and carbon tetrachloride poisoning, self-administered, by accident...
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It's Time to Stub 'Em Out
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), August 26, 2004
...varnish remover Acetic acid vinegar Ammonia cleaning agent Arsenic ant poison Benzene petrol fumes Carbon monoxide exhaust fumes Carbon tetrachloride dry cleaning fluid DDT insecticide Formaldehyde embalming fluid Hydrogen cyanide industrial pollutant...
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What We Owe to Owen Owen; Janet Tansley Talks to the Staff Who Worked at the Famous Store's Hair Salon and Are Now Holding a Reunion
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), August 3, 2011
...so they had one to wear while the other was being cleaned and restyled. Mind you, we had to clean them with a carbon tetrachloride and took them to the back stairs which was the airiest place - yet still people would feel faint from the fumes...
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Residents' Wells Could Be Tainted State Wants 30 Fox Lake Homes to Have Water Tested
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 27, 2009
Subjects: Groundwater, Water wells, Water, Underground
...benzene, were detected at levels greater than groundwater standards, officials said. Other chemicals including carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethylene were detected, too, but at levels less than groundwater standards. Long-term exposure...
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encyclopedia articles on: Carbon Tetrachloride  - 20 results

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Carbon Tetrachloride
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CARBON TETRACHLORIDE te tr klor id or tetrachloromethane te tr klor meth an, CCl 4...reacts at high temperatures to form the poisonous gas phosgene. Carbon tetrachloride is used in the production of Freon refrigerants, e.g., Freon...
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Carbon Disulfide
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CARBON DISULFIDE CS 2 , liquid organic...prepared by direct reaction of carbon, e.g., as charcoal...of rayon and cellophane). Carbon disulfide reacts with chlorine...a catalyst to form carbon tetrachloride...
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Solvent
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...acetone, alcohol, benzene (or benzol), carbon disulfide, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, ether, ethyl acetate, furfural...other. Nonpolar solvents, of which carbon tetrachloride is an example, have molecules whose electric...
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Chloride
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...indicated by common names such as carbon tetrachloride, methylene chloride, and methyl...compound of chlorine bonded to a carbon atom is indicated by the prefix or infix chloro; thus, carbon tetrachloride is tetrachloromethane, methylene...
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Fire Fighting
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...reacts with the soda to generate carbon dioxide; gas pressure then...ingredients form a foam of carbon dioxide bubbles. A carbon dioxide extinguisher consists...Halogen compounds such as carbon tetrachloride turn into a vapor that settles...
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