Properties
- Melting point:
- -23 °C
- Boiling point:
- 76-77 °C(lit.)
- Density
- 1.594 g/mL at 25 °C(lit.)
- vapor density
- 5.32 (vs air)
- vapor pressure
- 4.05 psi ( 20 °C)
- refractive index
- n20/D 1.460(lit.)
- Flash point:
- −2 °F
- storage temp.
- 2-8°C
- solubility
- Miscible with ethanol, benzene, chloroform, ether, carbon disulfide (U.S. EPA, 1985), petroleum
ether, solvent naphtha, and volatile oils (Yoshida et al., 1983a).
- form
- Liquid
- color
- Clear colorless
- Odor
- Ethereal, sweet, pungent odor detectable at 140 to 584 ppm (mean = 252 ppm)
- Relative polarity
- 0.052
- Odor Threshold
- 4.6ppm
- Water Solubility
- 0.8 g/L (20 ºC)
- λmax
- λ: 265 nm Amax: 1.0
λ: 270 nm Amax: 0.30
λ: 280 nm Amax: 0.07
λ: 290 nm Amax: 0.02
λ: 300-400 nm Amax: 0.01
- Merck
- 13,1826
- BRN
- 1098295
- Henry's Law Constant
- 2.15 at 30 °C (headspace-GC, Sanz et al., 1997)
- Exposure limits
- NIOSH REL: STEL 1 hour 2 ppm, IDLH 200 ppm; OSHA PEL: TWA
10 ppm, C 25 ppm, 5-minute/4-hour peak 200 ppm; ACGIH TLV: TWA 5 ppm.
- Dielectric constant
- 2.2(20℃)
- InChIKey
- VZGDMQKNWNREIO-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- LogP
- 2.830
Safety Information
Use
Carbon tetrachloride is used as a solvent, infire extinguishers, in dry cleaning, and in themanufacture of fluorocarbon propellents.As solvent for oils, fats, lacquers, varnishes, rubber waxes, resins; starting material in manufacture of organic Compounds. Pharmaceutic aid (solvent).