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Encyclopedia > Carbon tetrafluoride

Carbon tetrafluoride, CF4, is a carbon fluoride. General Name, Symbol, Number carbon, C, 6 Chemical series nonmetals Group, Period, Block 14, 2, p Appearance black (graphite) colorless (diamond) Atomic mass 12. ... A fluoride ion is the ionic form of fluorine. ...


It melts at -184 °C and boils at -128 °C.


Also tetrafluoromethane, it's usually considered an inorganic compound. Known as Freon-14, refrigerant 14, R14 and other names Inorganic chemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the properties and reactions of inorganic compounds. ...


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An example is the creation of carbon tetrachloride in small (yet slightly dangerous) quantities when carbon bearing materials are present in drinking water disinfected with chlorine gas.
As carbon tetrachloride is believed to be carcinogenic (cancer causing), chlorine gas is being replaced with chloramine for this use.
Carbon tetrafluoride (CF), a low boiling point gas used in refrigeration.
CARBON (symbol C, atom... - Online Information article about CARBON (symbol C, atom... (2638 words)
The volume composition of carbon monoxide is established by exploding a mixture of the gas with oxygen, two volumes of the gas combining with one volume of oxygen to form two volumes of carbon dioxide.
Lavoisier (1781—1788) first proved it to be an oxide of carbon by burning carbon in the oxygen obtained from the decomposition of mercuric oxide.
Carbon dioxide is moderately soluble in water, its coefficient of solubility at o° C. being 1.7977 (R. Bunsen).
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