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Is tetrachloroethylene useful for anything?
« on: May 17, 2008, 04:31:46 PM »
I have a bottle of anti-stat film cleaner (which is a mixture of tetrachloroethylene and isopropyl alcohol) from my photography days.

Is there any uses for this? I was just going to let it evaporate and keep the brown bottle it came it.
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Re: Is tetrachloroethylene useful for anything?
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2008, 10:57:59 AM »
You could try and use it to clean any stains out of some clothes. In its most common form it is dry cleaning liquid.


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Re: Is tetrachloroethylene useful for anything?
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2008, 01:01:01 PM »
Its fairly nasty stuff, but makes for a good NP solvent.

High temperatures decompose it to phosgene, which is extremely nasty stuff, but has many uses in organic chemistry.
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Re: Is tetrachloroethylene useful for anything?
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2008, 01:19:46 PM »
You could try and use it to clean any stains out of some clothes. In its most common form it is dry cleaning liquid.



Good call!! I can do that...
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Re: Is tetrachloroethylene useful for anything?
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2008, 04:25:04 AM »
Wear gloves.  I believe it has been found to cause liver cancer and does absorb through the skin.  Wouldn't be surprised if it were a mutagen and teratogen as well.

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Re: Is tetrachloroethylene useful for anything?
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2008, 12:00:16 PM »
Heck yes, it removed some stubborn gum that was stuck to my messenger bag.

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