Carbon Tetrachloride
Colourless liquid with a sweet smell used as a solvent. Once widely used as a industrial raw material, as a solvent, and in the production of CFCs. Use as a solvent ended when it was discovered to be carcinogenic.
- Symbol
- CCl4
- Also known as
- Tetrachloromethane, Freon 10
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| Atomic / Molecular Weight | 153.82 | gmol-1 | Clip |
| Density | 1584.2 (liquid) | kgm-3 | Clip |
| Melting Point | 250 | K | Clip |
| Boiling Point | 350 | K | Clip |
| Specific heat capacity | 840 | Jkg-1K-1 | Clip |
| Latent heat of evaporation | 190000 | Jkg-1 | Clip |
| Thermal conductivity | 0.103 | Wm-1K-1 | Clip |
| Refractive index | 1.4607 | at 589.3nm 101.3kPa 0°C | Clip |
| Velocity of sound | 930 | ms-1 | Clip |
| Bulk Modulus of Rigidity | 1120000000 | Nm-2 | Clip |
| Surface Tension | 0.0268 | Nm-1 | Clip |
| Viscosity | 0.000972 | Nsm-2 | Clip |
| Kinematic Viscosity | 5.95588235294118E-07 | m2s-1 | Clip |
paste all data into clipboardSee also: Carbon, Chlorine, Tetrafluoromethane, Trichlorofluoromethane.
Subjects: Chemistry