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EC number: 254-179-7 | CAS number: 38888-98-1
- Life Cycle description
- Uses advised against
- Endpoint summary
- Appearance / physical state / colour
- Melting point / freezing point
- Boiling point
- Density
- Particle size distribution (Granulometry)
- Vapour pressure
- Partition coefficient
- Water solubility
- Solubility in organic solvents / fat solubility
- Surface tension
- Flash point
- Auto flammability
- Flammability
- Explosiveness
- Oxidising properties
- Oxidation reduction potential
- Stability in organic solvents and identity of relevant degradation products
- Storage stability and reactivity towards container material
- Stability: thermal, sunlight, metals
- pH
- Dissociation constant
- Viscosity
- Additional physico-chemical information
- Additional physico-chemical properties of nanomaterials
- Nanomaterial agglomeration / aggregation
- Nanomaterial crystalline phase
- Nanomaterial crystallite and grain size
- Nanomaterial aspect ratio / shape
- Nanomaterial specific surface area
- Nanomaterial Zeta potential
- Nanomaterial surface chemistry
- Nanomaterial dustiness
- Nanomaterial porosity
- Nanomaterial pour density
- Nanomaterial photocatalytic activity
- Nanomaterial radical formation potential
- Nanomaterial catalytic activity
- Endpoint summary
- Stability
- Biodegradation
- Bioaccumulation
- Transport and distribution
- Environmental data
- Additional information on environmental fate and behaviour
- Ecotoxicological Summary
- Aquatic toxicity
- Endpoint summary
- Short-term toxicity to fish
- Long-term toxicity to fish
- Short-term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates
- Long-term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates
- Toxicity to aquatic algae and cyanobacteria
- Toxicity to aquatic plants other than algae
- Toxicity to microorganisms
- Endocrine disrupter testing in aquatic vertebrates – in vivo
- Toxicity to other aquatic organisms
- Sediment toxicity
- Terrestrial toxicity
- Biological effects monitoring
- Biotransformation and kinetics
- Additional ecotoxological information
- Toxicological Summary
- Toxicokinetics, metabolism and distribution
- Acute Toxicity
- Irritation / corrosion
- Sensitisation
- Repeated dose toxicity
- Genetic toxicity
- Carcinogenicity
- Toxicity to reproduction
- Specific investigations
- Exposure related observations in humans
- Toxic effects on livestock and pets
- Additional toxicological data
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Endpoint summary
Administrative data
Description of key information
Additional information
Property |
Value |
Substance type |
organic compound |
Appearance/physical state/colour |
Clear, colourless organic liquid under atmospheric pressure and room temperature |
Melting/freezing point |
-17.9 °C |
Boiling point (at 1013 hPa) |
272.6 °C (literature), 270 °C (measured) |
Density at 20⁰C |
Relative density is 0.9997 at room temperature (literature), 1.0014 (measured) |
Particle size distribution |
Not required for liquids |
Vapour pressure |
0.3893 Pa at 20.35 °C (literature) 0.06923 Pascals at 20°C and 0.15287 Pascals at 25°C (measured) |
Partition Coefficient |
4.48 at 25 °C 4.52 at 20 °C |
Water solubility at 20⁰C |
5.51 ±0.06 mg/L at 20.0 ± 0.5 °C 2.08 mg/L at 20.0 °C (study not reliable) |
Surface Tension at 25⁰C |
Not expected to be surface active |
Flash point |
129 °C (literature) 119.6 °C (measured) |
Self ignition temperature |
440 °C |
Flammability |
No pyrophoric properties; no flammability in contact with water |
Explosiveness |
Not expected to possess explosive properties |
Oxidising properties |
Not expected to possess oxidizing properties |
Stability in organic solvents and identity of relevant degradation products |
Not considered critical for this organic substance |
Dissociation constant |
No relevant functional groups, thus considered not required |
Viscosity |
4.484 mPa · s (dynamic) |
Storage stability and corrsion towards container material | Analytically unstable but no signs of corrosion or deterioration |
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