IRIS TOXICOLOGICAL REVIEW AND SUMMARY DOCUMENTS FOR CARBON TETRA...

Courtesy Recent Science Inventory records from the EPA  Tue, 12/01/2009 - 12:00

Carbon tetrachloride is a volatile haloalkane with a wide range of industrial and chemical applications. It is produced commercially from chlorination of a variety of low molecular weight hydrocarbons such as carbon disulfide, methanol, methane, propane, and ethylene dichloride.

It is also produced by thermal chlorination in the production of tetrachloroethylene. Major uses of carbon tetrachloride have been in the recovery of tin from tin plating waste, in formulation of petrol additives and refrigerants, in metal degreasing and agricultural fumigants,...

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