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Tetrachloroethylene, also
known as
perchloroethylene or
under the
systematic name tetrachloroethene, and
abbreviations such as perc (or PERC), and PCE...
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Tetrachloroethylene carbonate is a
carbonate ester with the
chemical formula C2Cl4O2CO. It is
produced by the
photochlorination of
ethylene carbonate...
- used to
destroy organic compounds such as
trichloroethylene and
tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene). It was
developed in the 1890s by
Henry John...
- cleaning.
Specific uses for
organic solvents are in dry
cleaning (e.g.
tetrachloroethylene); as
paint thinners (toluene, turpentine); as nail
polish removers...
- By the mid-1930s, the dry
cleaning industry had
started to use
tetrachloroethylene (also
called perchloroethylene or PCE) as the solvent. It has excellent...
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characteristic of
other chlorinated solvents,
somewhat similar to the
tetrachloroethylene odor
reminiscent of dry cleaners' shops.
Solid tetrachloromethane...
- and a
proposed metabolite of
tetrachloroethylene. It is a
halogenated epoxide with the
formula C2Cl4O.
Tetrachloroethylene oxide is
fairly stable but rearranges...
- This page
provides supplementary chemical data on
tetrachloroethylene. The
handling of this
chemical may
incur notable safety precautions. It is highly...
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carbon disulfide to
carbon tetrachloride,
followed by
pyrolysis to
tetrachloroethylene and
aqueous chlorination to
trichloroacetic acid, and
concluded with...
- of the most notorious.
Organochlorides such as trichloroethylene,
tetrachloroethylene,
dichloromethane and
chloroform are
commonly used as
solvents and...
