Covalent Bond Naming CCl4 Properties
By Samantha Patterson, Cindy Proano, Aimee Armosilla, John Tayco
People
- Henri Victor Regnault, a physicist, discovered Carbon Tetrachloride
- First made in 1839
- Also discovered vinyl chloride, dichloroethylene, trichloroethylene
Different Names
Physical Properties
• Colorless
• Volatile - easily evaporated by room temperature ()
• Sweet odor
• Melting point: -23 degrees Celsius
• Boiling point: 76.8 degrees Celsius
• Density: 1.586
• Insoluble in water
- Heavier than water
- Non-polar
- Starts as a liquid state
- soluble to fats and oils
- Clear
- Soluble to organic solvents
- Usually used as a solvent in most things like wax
Some other names to carbon tetrachloride is Tetrachloromethane, Benziform, Benzinoform, Carbon chloride, Carbon tet, Freon 10, Halon 104, Methane tetrachloride, Perchloromethane, Tetraform, and Tetrasol
Chemical Properties
Reference
- Non-flammable
- Liquid carbon tetrachloride is corrosive to some forms of plastics, rubber, and coatings.
- Combustion temperature is at3 7.3 kg cal/g mole wt at 20 deg C
- Reacts slowly with copper, and lead
- http://www.emla.hu/korkep/chems/tfacts30.html
- http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?cid=5943#x27
- http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Henri_Victor_Regnault.aspx
- http://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/eh/chemfs/fs/carbontet.htm
- http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/podcast/CIIEcompounds/transcripts/carbon_tetrachloride.asp\
- http://www.reciprocalnet.org/recipnet/showsamplebasic.jsp?sampleId=27344297
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tetrachloride
Interesting Facts
- Used in fire extinguisher, dry cleaning and cleaning agents (Poisonous nature causes it to clean objects)
- Made from methane
- Found in contaminated water
- Toxic when in contact with skin and if it is inhaled
- Health Effects:
- Brain, liver, kidney, nervous system and lung damage
- Cancerous
- Causes Noxiousness
- Contributes to Ozone Layer depletion
- Related to fumigating and carcinogen
- Used as a refrigerant
- Can reveal water mark without damaging paper for stamp collectors
- Used in first World War
- Unintentional chemical weapons
- Uririniary biomarkers Hepatotoxicity is induced by carbon tetrachloride