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EC number: 200-262-8 | CAS number: 56-23-5
- 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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Distribution modelling
Administrative data
- Endpoint:
- distribution modelling
- Type of information:
- calculation (if not (Q)SAR)
- Remarks:
- Migrated phrase: estimated by calculation
- Adequacy of study:
- supporting study
- Reliability:
- 4 (not assignable)
- Rationale for reliability incl. deficiencies:
- other: Only abstract and secondary source available
Data source
Referenceopen allclose all
- Reference Type:
- publication
- Title:
- Behavior Assessment Model for Trace Organics in Soil: III. Application of Screening Model
- Author:
- Jury WA, Spencer WF, Farmer WJ
- Year:
- 1 984
- Bibliographic source:
- J Environ Qual 13:573-9 http://jeq.scijournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/13/4/573
- Reference Type:
- publication
- Title:
- Behavior Assessment Model for Trace Organics in Soil: I. Model Description
- Author:
- Jury WA, Spencer WF, Farmer WJ
- Year:
- 1 983
- Bibliographic source:
- J Environ Qual 12:558-564 http://jeq.scijournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/12/4/558
- Reference Type:
- secondary source
- Title:
- Environmental Health Criteria 208 CARBON TETRACHLORIDE
- Author:
- de Fouw J
- Year:
- 1 999
- Bibliographic source:
- ISBN 92 4 157208 6, ISSN 0250-863X, self-published WHO, Geneva, Switzerland, 199p http://www.inchem.org/documents/ehc/ehc/ehc208.htm
Materials and methods
- Model:
- other: according to Jury et al (1983)
- Media:
- other: soil-air
Test material
- Reference substance name:
- Carbon tetrachloride
- EC Number:
- 200-262-8
- EC Name:
- Carbon tetrachloride
- Cas Number:
- 56-23-5
- Molecular formula:
- CCl4
- IUPAC Name:
- tetrachloromethane
Constituent 1
Results and discussion
Applicant's summary and conclusion
- Executive summary:
The soil chemical screening model developed in Jury et al. (1983) is applied to a set of 35 chemicals for which benchmark properties(organic C partition coefficient, vapor pressure, solubility,half-life) have been obtained. Environmental screening tests are conducted on the chemicals to determine their relative convective mobility, diffusive mobility, volatility, and persistence with the results presented in a series of classifications ratingthe susceptibility of the chemical to a given loss pathway.
The convective mobility tests estimate the time required fora pulse of chemical to travel a distance of 10 cm through anideal soil of uniform water content and organic C content whilebeing subjected to a water application rate of 1 cm/day. Thediffusive mobility tests determine the time required for a chemicalto diffuse 10 cm through the same ideal soil. In the volatilization screening tests, each chemical is applied at a uniform concentrationof 1 kg/ha to a standard depth in the soil with uniform propertiesand is allowed to volatilize through a stagnant air boundarylayer during a specified time period in the presence or absenceof water evaporation. The resulting volatilization fluxes andcumulative losses for a standard time period are used to categorizethe relative susceptibility of the chemical to loss to the atmosphere.The persistence tests are used to determine the amount of chemical left after a specified time period when it is free not onlyto degrade but also to volatilize.
Jury et al. (1984) predicted that CTC would have a volatilization half-life of 0.2 days at a depth of 1 cm and 0.8 days at a depth of 10 cm in soil, based on volatilization tests and assuming a uniform distribution of the chemical with depth.
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