Re: White House Delays Release of Study Showing Toxic Rocket Fuel In Most Americans

In article <Go7Pf.805377$x96.411457@attbi_s72>, George wrote:
Perchlorate has a number
of industrial uses, and it's used in matches, flares, pyrotechnics,
ordnance, and explosives. You are thinking of perchloroethane (known as
PERC), which is used in dry cleaning and used to be used in white-out
before it was reformulated.

I was trying to work out where Jo's article was going wrong. The
IUPAC name for the compound you're referring to is (if I've identified it
properly) 1,1,2,2 tetra-chloro ethylene.
God, I hated learning IUPAC terminology, but it's still better than
talking about the wrong compound.

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