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

Aidan Karley wrote:
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.

Ok, we're talking about different things. Around here tetra chloro ethylene is called perchlorethylene or PCE. It is clear and has a very sweet/slightly acrid odor. Both it and trichlorethylene *are* big groundwater problems because without remediation, it pools, doesn't go away.

All any of this proves is that chlorine and chlorates aren't good for you. Duh.
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