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Toxicity

I am concerned that your article indicates that trichloroethane is "relatively non-toxic" although studies confirm that inhalation triggers a syndrome known as "sudden death syndrome" whereby the concentrated inhaled vapors can sensitive cardiac tissues to catecholamine formation causing massive arrythmias and zero net cardiac output. The result, death. 208.11.188.26 16:24 Feb 1, 2005

Chemical Formula

Should we show up 1,1,1-Trichloroethane with CH3CCl3 rather than C2H3Cl3?

Added the CH3CCl3. --Deryck C. 01:36, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Name of article

In actual writing, we put the "t" in lowercase. Therefore name of this article should be "1,1,1-trichloroethane". I'm going to move this. --Deryck C. 01:33, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Does 1,1,1 - Trichoroethane effect alcohol breath testing devices?

Evidentiary machines, used by policeforces, generally utilize infrared spectrophotometer technology. Essentially, the machines project an infra-red beam of energy through the captured breath in the sample chamber; the more energy is absorbed by compounds containing the methyl group in their molecular structures, the less reaches the detector on the other side -- and the higher the reading. The assumption is that the compound containing the methyl group is probably ethyl alcohol. However, studies indicate that over one hundred compounds containing the methyl group have been identified on the human breath and will be incorrectly detected as ethyl alcohol. Importantly, the effect is cumulative: the more methyl group compounds absorbing the infrared energy, the higher the false breath test result.

Greenhouse gas?

The article is in category:greenhouse gases, but the article makes no mention of it. Is it really a greenhouse gas as well as being an ozone depleting gas? Tim Ivorson 2008-03-18 13:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Insecticide

Insecticide: The article mentions that a citation is needed that this chemical is harmful to insects. The http://www.alanwood.net/pesticides/methylchloroform.html page lists it as an insecticide. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.51.70.94 (talk) 15:47, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the suggestion. I have added the reference to the article. -- Ed (Edgar181) 16:14, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Polar Solvent?

"1,1,1-Trichloroethane is generally considered as a polar solvent." Who does? It's a typical low-polarity solvent and does not dissolve medium or highly polar stuff. --FK1954 (talk) 20:08, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, 1,1,1-Trichloroethane is not really a polar solvent. But, like other halogenated (except fluorinated) hydrocarbons, it has a high polarizability. This makes it a good solvent for substances of low polarity, but not for strong polar compounds. btw: the odor is NOT chloroform-like (nearly no sweet flavor), it reminds me more of tetrachloromethane. --FK1954 (talk) 23:56, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

better solubility info than given in infobox

The infobox simply gives the solubility in water as "0.4%" at whatever temp., and the source gives only this information too. So I went off to find a more precise, equally reliable source -- http://www.inchem.org/documents/ehc/ehc/ehc136.htm -- which gives 3 alternative measurements and in turn cites their originators, AND gives the **units used - g/dm3** (i.e. w/v). If you're skilled at referencing, perhaps you'd like to change the info and citation over - it'd take me ages and I'd probably make mistakes. I'll mark the reference with a check template. Trev M   15:27, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Probably with an inappropriate cite template, but seems ok. Useful cross check for lots of the other data there too. Trev M   22:10, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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