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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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characteristic of
other chlorinated solvents,
somewhat similar to the
tetrachloroethylene odor
reminiscent of dry cleaners' shops.
Solid tetrachloromethane...
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reaction produces tetrachloroethylene as a
byproduct and
depending on the
amount of
chlorine fed to the reaction,
tetrachloroethylene can even be the major...
- of the most notorious.
Organochlorides such as trichloroethylene,
tetrachloroethylene,
dichloromethane and
chloroform are
commonly used as
solvents and...
- cleaning.
Specific uses for
organic solvents are in dry
cleaning (e.g.
tetrachloroethylene); as
paint thinners (toluene, turpentine); as nail
polish removers...
- and a
proposed metabolite of
tetrachloroethylene. It is a
halogenated epoxide with the
formula C2Cl4O.
Tetrachloroethylene oxide is
fairly stable but rearranges...
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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...
- the dry
cleaning industry had
started to use
perchloroethylene (
tetrachloroethylene) as the solvent. It has
excellent cleaning power and is nonflammable...
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components of Dow Chemical's "Dowclene" dry
cleaning fluid among with
tetrachloroethylene,
first marketed in the late 1930s. Use of 1,1,1-trichloroethane in...
