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Chlorine

Chlorine

Chlorine is classified as a choking agent (or pulmonary agent). This class of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) incapacitates enemy combatants by attacking the respiratory system, causing the victims to cough violently, choke, and therefore become incapacitated.
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PROPANE

PROPANE

Propane is a flammable, colorless, odorless, tasteless, nontoxic hydrocarbon gas. It burns relatively cleanly and is an excellent fuel. Although propane is a flammable gas, it is usually shipped and stored as a liquid. An odorant is added so it can be detected if it leaks from its container. It has an ignition temperature of 8427F and explosive limits of 2.1 percent to 9.5 percent in air. The liquefied gas has a specific gravity of 0.531 and a molecular weight of 44. Its vapor density is 1.51
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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES

CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES

With the October 1996 issue of Fire Engineering and a review of the chemical ethyl acetate, this series known as the Chemical Data Notebook came to an end. It began in the June 1986 issue with sulfuric acid, the world?s highest-volume chemical, and ended with ethyl acetate, a flammable liquid. I promised Tom Brennan, then the editor of Fire Engineering, a 10-year series covering 120 of the most common hazardous materials that, if accidentally released, would threaten our citizens, communities,
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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #120: ETHYL ACETATE

CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #120: ETHYL ACETATE

A flammable, volatile, irritating, colorless liquid with a pleasant, fruity odor, ethyl acetate is used as a solvent for coatings, dopes, lacquers, shellacs, varnishes, and other products. It also has several other uses in industry.
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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #117: HEXANE

CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #117: HEXANE

Hexane is a flammable, volatile, irritating, slightly toxic, clear, colorless liquid with an odor similar to gasoline. A pure substance that may be used as an ingredient in gasoline, it is used principally as a solvent, an extractant, and a medium in which chemical reactions are carried out to produce pharmaceuticals and polymers. It is also used in the manufacture of many materials such as adhesives, food additives, inks, lacquers, stains, and thermometers.
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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #119: NITROBENZENE

CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #119: NITROBENZENE

Nitrobenzene is a highly toxic, combustible, fairly reactive, irritating, oxidizing, bright yellow crystalline solid or a yellow-to-brownish oily liquid with a bitter almond or shoe-paste odor. It is used to make drugs, dyes, explosives, leather dressings, metal polishes, paint solvents, rubber chemicals, shoe polishes, and a variety of other chemicals. Products of combustion may contain the nitrogen oxides (NOx). These gases are oxidizers and highly toxic.
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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #116: BUTYRALDEHYDE

CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #116: BUTYRALDEHYDE

Butyraldehyde is a flammable, toxic, irritating, slightly corrosive, clear, colorless, volatile liquid with a pungent, sweet, and rancid odor. It is used in making drugs, dyes, paper, plastics, and rubber and as a raw material in the manufacture of many chemicals.
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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #115: DIISOPROPYL ETHER

CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #115: DIISOPROPYL ETHER

Diisopropyl ether is a flammable, highly volatile, anesthetic, irritating, mildly toxic, clear, colorless liquid with a sweet, pungent, and slightly sharp but pleasant odor. Its major uses are as an extractant; a solvent for animal, vegetable, and mineral oils as well as resins and waxes; and as a raw material in the manufacture of rubber cements and paint and varnish removers.
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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #113: ALLYL CHLORIDE

CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #113: ALLYL CHLORIDE

Allyl chloride is a flammable, toxic, anesthetic, polymerizable, irritating, corrosive, colorless to straw-colored, volatile liquid with a garlic-like odor. It is used in the manufacture of insecticides, pharmaceuticals, resins, glycerine, allyl compounds, and other chemicals.
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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #112: METHYL MERCAPTAN

CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #112: METHYL MERCAPTAN

Methyl mercaptan is a flammable, toxic, reactive, irritating gas with a strong, disagreeable odor (similar to that of garlic or rotten cabbage) that is detectable at extremely low concentrations. Common uses of methyl mercaptan include in the manufacturing of additives for jet fuels, catalysts, dyes, fungicides, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, plastics, and other chemicals. The name methyl mercaptan is slowly being replaced by its proper chemical name methanethiol, although the U.S. Department of
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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #111: SILICON TETRACHLORIDE

CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #111: SILICON TETRACHLORIDE

Silicon tetrachloride is a water-reactive, toxic, corrosive, irritating, mobile, volatile, colorless to light yellow-colored fuming liquid with a sharp, pungent, suffocating odor. It is commonly used in the production of compounds such as ethyl silicate, high purity silica, various silicone compounds, fused silica glass, and other chemicals. It reacts vigorously with water, liberating heat, hydrogen chloride (which dissolves in the water to form hydrochloric acid), and siloxane.
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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #110: FORMIC ACID

CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #110: FORMIC ACID

Formic acid is a combustible, corrosive, toxic, irritating, colorless liquid with a pungent odor. In its natural state, it is the major ingredient in the stinging chemical of ants and other insects. Its main uses are in dyeing textiles and as an organic chemical intermediate used in the production of other chemicals such as fumigants, insecticides, perfume solvents, refrigerants, and vinyl resin plasticizers. It is also used as an antiseptic, a laboratory reagent, an ore flotation agent, and a
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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #109: BORON TRICHLORIDE

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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #107: ETHYL ACRYLATE

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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #106: CHLORINE DIOXIDE

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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #105: SODIUM HYDROSULFIDE

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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #104: PROPYLENE OXIDE

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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #103: ARSINE

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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #101: ACETIC ANHYDRIDE

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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #100: ETHYL CHLORIDE

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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #99: PHOSPHORUS PENTASULFIDE

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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #98: HYDROFLUOROSILICIC ACID

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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #97: METHYL METHACRYLATE

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CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #96: DIMETHYLAMINE

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