Tetrachloroethylene is an excellent\u00a0solvent\u00a0for\u00a0organic\u00a0materials. Otherwise it is volatile, highly stable, and\u00a0nonflammable. For these reasons, it is widely used in\u00a0dry cleaning. It is also used to degrease metal parts in the\u00a0automotive\u00a0and other metalworking industries, usually as a mixture with other chlorocarbons. It appears in a few consumer products including\u00a0paint strippers\u00a0and spot removers.<\/p>\n
It is used in\u00a0neutrino detectors\u00a0where a neutrino interacts with a neutron in the chlorine atom and converts it to a proton to form\u00a0argon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Other names: Tetrachloroethylene, Perchloroethene, Perchloroethylene, Perc, PCE<\/strong><\/p>\n Tetrachloroethylene, also known under the systematic name\u00a0tetrachloroethene, or\u00a0perchloroethylene\u00a0(“perc” or “PERC”), and many other names, is a\u00a0chlorocarbon\u00a0with the formula Cl2C=CCl2. It is a colorless liquid widely used for\u00a0dry cleaning\u00a0of fabrics, hence it is sometimes called “dry-cleaning fluid”. It has a sweet odor detectable by most people at a concentration of 1 part per million (1 ppm). Worldwide production was about 1\u00a0million metric tons (980,000 long tons; 1,100,000 short tons) in 1985.<\/p>\n CAS: 127-18-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6235,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[199,205,209,211,201,202],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13215","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-all-products","7":"product_cat-metal-chemicals","8":"product_cat-construction-industry","9":"product_cat-typographic-chemicals","10":"product_cat-car-and-machine-chemicals","11":"product_cat-household-chemicals","13":"first","14":"outofstock","15":"taxable","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-variable","19":"has-default-attributes","20":"rtwpvg-product"},"yoast_head":"\n