Halogenated hydrocarbons carbon tetrachloride

Halogenated Hydrocarbons Carbon Tetrachloride Chlorobenzene Chloroform Dichlorobenzene... 

BUNA N (nitrile) Aromatic hydrocarbons, dilute acids and bases, silicones, helium hydrogen Halogen compounds, halogenated hydrocarbons (carbon tetrachloride, trichlorethylene), ketones (acetone), nitro compounds, or strong acids Typical color black. Temperature range -50 to 120°C. Easily compressed. Density 1.00. Lowest permeability rates for gases of all elastomers. 0.25... 

Potassium forms explosive mixmres with halogenated hydrocarbons, carbon tetrachloride, carbon dioxide (dry ice), carbon monoxide, and carbon disulfide, resulting in explosions when subjected to shock. With carbon monoxide, it forms potassium carbonyl, which explodes on exposure to air. It ignites in nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and phosphine. 

Alkali metals Moisture, acetylene, metal halides, ammonium salts, oxygen and oxidizing agents, halogens, carbon tetrachloride, carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon disul-flde, chloroform, chlorinated hydrocarbons, ethylene oxide, boric acid, sulfur, tellurium... 

It is important to produce HCl rather than elemental chlorine, CI2, because HCl can be easily scmbbed out of the exhaust stream, whereas CI2 is very difficult to scmb from the reactor off-gas. If the halogenated hydrocarbon is deficient in hydrogen relative to that needed to produce HCl, low levels of water vapor may be needed in the entering stream (45) and an optional water injector may be utilized. For example, trichloroethylene [79-01 -6] C2HCI2, and carbon tetrachloride require some water vapor as a source of hydrogen (45). 

Halogenated hydrocarbons depress cardiac contractility, decrease heart rate, and inhibit conductivity in the cardiac conducting system. The cardiac-toxicity of these compounds is related to the number of halogen atoms it increases first as the number of halogen atoms increases, but decreases after achieving the maximum toxicity when four halogen atoms are present. Some of these compounds, e.g., chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, and trichloroethylene, sensitize the heart to catecholamines (adrenaline and noradrenaline) and thus increase the risk of cardiac arrhythmia. 

Because 1,4-dichlorobenzene is a liver toxin, it probably can interact with other chemicals that are liver toxicants. These toxicants are many, and include ethanol, halogenated hydrocarbons (chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, etc ), benzene, and other haloalkanes and haloalkenes. In addition, 1,4-dichlorobenzene toxicity may also be exacerbated by concurrent exposure with acetaminophen, heavy metals (copper, iron, arsenic), aflatoxins, pyrrolizidine alkaloids (from some types of plants), high levels of vitamin A, and hepatitis viruses. Such interactions could either be additive or S5mergistic effects. 

Lithium metal is less reactive than other alkali metals. However, violent explosions may occur when lithium is combined with halogenated hydrocarbons, such as chloroform or carbon tetrachloride. Violent reactions can occur with many other substances at high temperatures. 

Researchers believe that the PSVE technology can be used to remove volatile organic compounds (VOCs), halogenated volatile organic compounds (HVOCs), and total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH). Some chemicals treated with PSVE include carbon tetrachloride, vinyl chloride (VC), chlorobenzene, 1,1-dichloroethane, dichloroethene (DCE), trichloroethane (TCA), and benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX). 

Occupationally, liver injury is most likely to occur following exposure to vapors of volatile halogenated hydrocarbons (such as chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, and bromobenzene), which may enter the bloodstream via the pulmonary route. However, hepatotoxins may enter the gastrointestinal tract, and hence the liver, in the form of fine particles. They are inhaled, then expelled from the bronchi or trachea into the oral cavity, and swallowed with saliva. 

Carbon tetrachloride represents an example of the change to petroleum raw materials in this field. The traditional source of this widely used product has been the chlorination of carbon disulfide, either directly or through the use of sulfur dichloride. Military requirements in World War II caused an increase in demand, and in addition to expansion of the older operations, a new process (28) was introduced in 1943 it involved direct chlorination of methane at 400° to 500° C. and essentially atmospheric pressure. This apparently straight-forward substitution of halogen for hydrogen in the simplest paraffin hydrocarbon was still a difficult technical accomplishment, requiring special reactor construction to avoid explosive conditions. There is also the fact that disposal of by-product hydrochloric acid is necessary here, though this does not enter the carbon disulfide picture. That these problems have been settled successfully is indicated by the report (82) that the chlorination of methane is the predominant process in use in the United States today, and it is estimated that more than 100,000,000 pounds of carbon tetrachloride were so produced last year. 

Halogenated hydrocarbons, such as chlorobenzene, bromo-benzene, o-dichlorobenzene, carbon tetrachloride. 

To these belong the hydrocarbons and their halogen derivs, such as benzene, pentane, toluene, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, chlorobenzene, etc. Because of the inert nature of these solvents, no dissociation or other reaction can take place when a single acid or base is dissolved... 

The halogen compounds used were methylene dichloride, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, ethylene dichloride, ethyl bromide, ethylene dibromide, bromoform, methyl iodide, and ethyl iodide. The hydrocarbons selected for their interesting combustion properties were hexane, 2-methylpentane, 2,2-dimethylbutane, hex-l-ene, heptane, methylcyclo-hexane, isooctane, diisobutylene, benzene, toluene, m-xylene, and ethylbenzene. 

Decaborane (and possibly some other boron hydrides) in the presence of carbon tetrachloride, and possibly other halogenated hydrocarbons, forms a very shock-sensitive high explosive. 

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