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Ethylene oxide is a colorless gas at 25 °C (77 °F) and is a mobile liquid at 0 °C (32 °F) – viscosity of liquid ethylene oxide at 0 °C is about 5.5 times lower than that of water. The gas has a characteristic sweet odor of ether, noticeable when its concentration in air exceeds 500 ppm. [26]
DeCarlo said nearly all the readings were higher than 11 parts of ethylene oxide per 1 trillion parts of air — a level that translates to a one in 10,000 cancer risk for long-term exposure to ...
Ethylene oxide is a very hazardous substance. At room temperature it is a flammable, carcinogenic, mutagenic, irritating, and anaesthetic gas. It is used for making many consumer products as well as non-consumer chemicals and intermediates. These products include detergents, thickeners, solvents, plastics, and various organic chemicals. [9] [10]
Ethylene (IUPAC name: ethene) is a hydrocarbon which has the formula C 2 H 4 or H 2 C=CH 2.It is a colourless, flammable gas with a faint "sweet and musky" odour when pure. [7] It is the simplest alkene (a hydrocarbon with carbon–carbon double bonds).
In June, people learned the plant had released carcinogenic ethylene oxide gas unchecked for 12 years – the first most had heard of it. The agency had long known of the potential dangers and did ...
The US Environmental Protection Agency issued new rules on Tuesday to protect neighborhoods near more than 200 manufacturing facilities that release airborne toxins such as ethylene oxide ...
Sterilant gas monitoring is the detection of hazardous gases used by health care and other facilities to sterilize medical supplies that cannot be sterilized by heat or steam methods. [1] The current FDA approved sterilant gases are ethylene oxide, [2] hydrogen peroxide [3] and ozone. [4]
Ethylene, refrigerated liquid (cryogenic liquid) UN 1039: 2.1: Ethyl methyl ether: UN 1040: 2.3: Ethylene oxide or Ethylene oxide with nitrogen up to a total pressure of 1MPa (10 bar) at 50 °C UN 1041: 2.1: Ethylene oxide and carbon dioxide mixtures with more than 9 percent but not more than 87 percent ethylene oxide UN 1042? (UN No. no longer ...