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Vinyl Chloride Summary
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A colorless, flammable, and toxic liquid when under pressure, but a gas under ordinary conditions. Polymerized vinyl chloride, called polyvinyl chloride, is a ubiquitous plastic produced in enormous quantities. While vinyl chloride has been detected at...
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Vinyl chloride Information
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Vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), also known as chloroethene in IUPAC nomenclature, is an important industrial chemical chiefly used to produce its polymer, polyvinyl chloride (PVC). At room temperature, VCM is a toxic, colorless gas with a sickly sweet...


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Chemical Week
VINYL CHLORIDE MONOMER.(Brief Article)
09/20/2000: 443 words, approx. 2 pages
PRICES U. S. 27 cts-28 cts/lb delivered EUROPE DM1,300-DM1,350/m.t. del. ASIA $550-$600/m.t. c&f OUTLOOK Vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) producers in the U.S. report weaker demand due to the slowdown in polyvinyl chloride (PVC), which consumes 99% of VCM...
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Environmental Health Perspectives
Vinyl Chloride: Still a Cause for Concern.
07/01/2000: 11,387 words, approx. 38 pages
Vinyl chloride (VC) is both a known carcinogen and a regulated chemical, and its production capacity has almost doubled over the last 20 years, currently 27 million tons/year worldwide. According to recent reports it is still a cause for concern. VC has been...
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AP Features
Investigators: Worker error caused fatal chemical plant explosion
3/6/2007: 647 words, approx. 2 pages
A series of explosions that killed five employees at a central Illinois chemical plant in 2004 was caused by a worker who mistakenly opened a valve on a high-temperature reactor that was in operation, a federal agency said Tuesday.Yet plant owner Formosa Plastics Corporation U.S.A....
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The New York Observer
Paradise Lost? Artists Fear a Gentrified Gowanus
5/8/2007: 802 words, approx. 3 pages
How do you solve a problem like Gowanus? On the one hand, it’s an oddly quiet valley of low buildings and big skies between Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, where pedestrian bridges cut across a winding canal. On the other hand, it’s a fetid, carcinogenic...
 


 

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