Vinyl Chloride Poisoning

Additional research has now demonstrated the carcinogenicity of vc to other organs and at lower concentrations.

Vinyl chloride poisoning.

It can be formed when other substances such as trichloroethane trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene are broken down. The toxicity of vinyl chloride as determined by repeated exposure of laboratory animals. Vinyl chloride is a chlorinated hydrocarbon occurring as a colorless highly flammable gas with a mild sweet odor that may emit toxic fumes of carbon dioxide carbon monoxide hydrogen chloride and phosgene when heated to decomposition. It is a manufactured substance that does not occur naturally.

Vinyl chloride a chemical known to cause cancer poisons the air breathed by workers and people living in contaminated communities. Vinyl chloride is used to make polyvinyl chloride pvc. It burns easily and it is not stable at high temperatures. Ingestion and other exposures to the chemical can cause various symptoms.

Viola pl bigotti a caputo a. The target organs for vc now clearly in. It has a mild sweet odor. Vinyl chloride is primarily used to make polyvinyl chloride to manufacture plastics.

Chemical poisoning vinyl choride. Vinyl chloride was briefly used as an inhalational anaesthetic in a similar vein to ethyl chloride though its toxicity forced this practice to be abandoned. Am ind hyg assoc j. Smaller amounts of vinyl chloride are used in furniture and automobile upholstery wall coverings housewares and automotive parts.

It is also known as chloroethene chloroethylene ethylene monochloride or monochloroethylene. Polyvinyl chloride pipes wire coverings vehicle plastics rubber paper furniture and glass. Oncogenic response of rat skin lungs and bones to vinyl chloride. Chemical poisoning vinyl choride.

In 1974 vinyl chloride vc was first reported in the open scientific literature to induce angiosarcoma of the liver both in humans and in animals. Vinyl chloride is a colorless gas. It is flammable burns easily as a gas and is not stable at high temperatures. Vinyl chloride is used to make polyvinyl chloride pvc.

Vinyl chloride is a colorless gas at normal temperatures. Vinyl chloride exists in liquid form if it is kept under high pressure or at low temperatures less than 13 4ï c.