A new study reveals the likely sources. As well as depleting ozone, carbon tetrachloride (CCl 4 or CTC) is a greenhouse gas and carcinogenic in high concentrations. It plays a major role in destroying ...

Most carbon tetrachloride that escapes to the environment is found as a very stable gas, which can be smelled by people in concentrations as low as 10 parts per million (ppm), according to the US ...

toxicologists discovered that inhalation of or skin contact with carbon tetrachloride (CCl 4) can damage many organs, including the liver, kidneys, and central nervous system (see hazard table). CCl 4 ...

Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4), once commonly used ... It's a known air toxin and it eats away at the ozone layer--the gas accounts for about 10-15 percent of the ozone-depleting chemicals in the ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a rule that allows current uses of the toxic solvent carbon tetrachloride to continue, as long as manufacturers meet new worker safety ...

In view of the difficulty of handling pure ozone gas even without compression ... that the double hydrates with acetone, carbon tetrachloride or chloroform were relatively easy to prepare.

"Our results show that emissions of carbon tetrachloride from the eastern Asia ... It's possible that large amounts of this gas are inadvertently being created when other chemicals, such as ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency plans to require strict inhalation limits and skin protections for workers who handle carbon tetrachloride, according to a proposed rule released July 17.