Aerosols propellants

C. Manufactured by the action of HF on CCI4 using SbClj as a catalyst. Known commercially as Freon-12 or Arcton-12. Widely used as a refrigerant and aerosol propellant. It is much less toxic than carbon tetrachloride. 

By far the largest use of hydrogen fluoride is in the manufacture of fluorocarbons which find a wide variety of uses including refrigerants, aerosol propellants and anaesthetics. Hydrogen fluoride is also used in the manufacture of synthetic cryolite, Na3AIFg, and the production of enriched uranium. 

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In 1976 the United States banned the use of CFCs as aerosol propellants. No further steps were taken until 1987 when the United States and some 50 other countries adopted the Montreal Protocol, specifing a 50% reduction of fully halogenated CFCs by 1999. In 1990, an agreement was reached among 93 nations to accelerate the discontinuation of CFCs and completely eliminate production by the year 2000. The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments contain a phaseout schedule for CFCs, halons, carbon tetrachloride, and methylchloroform. Such steps should stop the iacrease of CFCs ia the atmosphere but, because of the long lifetimes, CFCs will remain ia the atmosphere for centuries. 

A small but important use of ammonium nitrate is in the production of nitrous oxide during the 1980s consumption for this purpose averaged about 30,000 t. The gas is generated by controlled heating of ammonium nitrate above 200°C. Nitrous oxide is used primarily as an anesthetic and as an aerosol propellant for food products (see Anesthetics Aerosols). 

Other minor uses of ethyl chloride iaclude blowiag agents for thermoplastic foam (51) and styrene polymer foam (52), the manufacture of polymeric ketones used as lube oil detergents (53), the manufacture of acetaldehyde (qv) (54), as an aerosol propellent (55), as a refrigerant (R-160), ia the preparation of acid dyes (56), and as a local or general anesthetic (57,58). 

TSCA also placed restrictions on the use of chlorofluorocarbons, asbestos, and fuUy halogenated chlorofluoroalkanes such as aerosol propellants. 

LPG is considered to be non-toxic witli no chronic effects, but the vapour is slightly anaesthetic. In sufficiently high concentrations, resulting in oxygen deficiency, it will result in physical asphyxiation. The gases are colourless and odourless but an odorant or stenching agent (e.g. methyl mercaptan or dimethyl sulphide) is normally added to facilitate detection by smell down to approximately 0.4% by volume in air, i.e. one-fifth of the lower flammable limit. The odorant is not added for specific applications, e.g. cosmetic aerosol propellant. 

During the 1980s, it became recognized that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), widely used as aerosol propellants, are damaging the ozone layer, and aerosol manufacturers were asked to use other propellants. Some... 

The production of chlorofluoro- and hydrochlorofluorocarbons expanded rapidly after 1945, reaching about 1 milbon tons in 1986 despite a drop m production in the late 1970s, when the United States and several other countnes banned the use of chlorofluorocarbons as aerosol propellants In the early 1990s, production and consumpaon are in decline... 

The catalyst is formed by reaction of HF on SbClj. The Freons have a unique combination of properties which make them ideally suited for use as refrigerants and aerosol propellants. They have low bp, low viscosity, low surface tension and high density, and are non-toxic, non-flammable, odourless, chemically inert and thermally stable. The most commonly used is CF2CI2, bp, —29.8°. The market for Freons... 

This compound is used as a refrigerant and as an aerosol propellent. It is also used to synthesize tetrafluoroethylene, which is polymerized to a heat resistant polymer (Teflon) ... 

A typical example of the interaction between hypothesis and experiment is the story of the work that resulted in worldwide concern over the depletion of the ozone layer in the stratosphere. These studies led to the awarding of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Paul Crutzen, Mario Molina, and F. Sherwood Rowland. Figure FT provides a schematic view of how this prize-winning research advanced. It began in 1971 when experiments revealed that chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, had appeared in the Earth s atmosphere. At the time, these CFCs were widely used as refrigerants and as aerosol propellants. Rowland wondered what eventually would happen to these gaseous compounds. He carried out a theoretical analysis, from which he concluded that CFCs are very durable and could persist in the atmosphere for many years. 

Although deaths from exposure to CFCs have occurred during refrigeration repair, its use as solvents, and its use and abuse as aerosol propellant (Aviado 1994), no data specific to HFCs were located. 

CFCs. All "nonessential" uses of CFCs in aerosol propellents were banned in 1978—the first and only major control action under TSCA not specifically mandated by the statute. This action may have helped to reduce the future incidence of skin cancer by diminishing CFCs destructive effects on stratospheric ozone. Making appropriate assumptions about rates of ozone depletion and extrapolating from current disease rates, one could estimate a range of cancers avoided because of this prohibition. However, any health benefit due to the ban on aerosol CFC uses may be masked by the continued increase in non-aerosol uses. 

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