This page provides supplementary chemical data on trichloroethylene.

Material Safety Data Sheet

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Structure and properties

Structure and properties Index of refraction,Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, 10th ed. pp 1289–1376nD 1.4777 at 19.8 °C Abbe number? Dielectric constant,CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 44th ed. pp 2613–2620 εr 3.4 ε0 at 16 °C Bond strength ? Bond length ? Bond angle ? Magnetic susceptibility ? Surface tension 28.7 dyn/cm Viscosity 0.53 mPa·s at 25 °C

Thermodynamic properties

Phase behavior Triple point 188.4 K (−84.7 °C), ? Pa Critical point 571 K (298 °C), 5016 kPa Std enthalpy changeof fusion, ΔfusHo 8.45 kJ/mol Std entropy changeof fusion, ΔfusSo 44.8 J/(mol·K) Std enthalpy changeof vaporization, ΔvapHo 31.4 kJ/mol Std entropy changeof vaporization, ΔvapSo ? J/(mol·K) Solid properties Std enthalpy changeof formation, ΔfHosolid ? kJ/mol Standard molar entropy,Sosolid ? J/(mol K) Heat capacity, cp ? J/(mol K) Liquid properties Std enthalpy changeof formation, ΔfHoliquid −53.1 kJ/mol Standard molar entropy,Soliquid ? J/(mol K) Enthalpy of combustion, ΔcHoliquid −947.7 kJ/mol Heat capacity, cp 120.1 J/(mol K) Gas properties Std enthalpy changeof formation, ΔfHogas −19.1 kJ/mol Standard molar entropy,Sogas ? J/(mol K) Heat capacity, cp 80.7 J/(mol K) at 25 °C

Vapor pressure of liquid P in mm Hg 1 10 40 100 400 760 T in °C −43.8 −12.4 11.9 31.4 67.0 86.7 Table data obtained from CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 44th ed.

Distillation data Vapor-liquid Equilibriumfor Trichloroethylene/Carbon tetrachlorideP = 760 mmHg BPTemp.°C % by mole CCl4 liquid vapor 86.0 6.0 7.5 85.1 14.7 17.6 84.4 20.2 25.0 84.2 22.4 27.8 83.5 27.4 34.4 83.1 31.5 38.0 82.5 37.6 44.5 81.3 49.0 56.5 81.0 52.5 58.9 80.5 58.0 65.0 80.0 62.7 70.0 79.1 70.6 78.0 78.5 76.7 82.9 78.1 80.4 86.6 77.3 91.8 95.0 76.9 96.5 98.0     Vapor-liquid Equilibriumfor Trichloroethylene/TetrachloroethyleneP = 760 mmHg BPTemp.°C % by mole trichloroethylene liquid vapor 117.0 7.5 17.8 115.7 10.0 22.8 112.8 16.2 33.8 110.5 21.7 42.0 109.1 25.0 46.8 106.9 30.8 53.7 105.7 33.6 57.2 103.4 39.4 62.7 101.0 46.2 69.8 100.0 49.3 71.8 98.4 55.0 75.6 96.3 61.4 80.0 94.4 68.5 84.3 93.4 72.3 87.2 92.1 76.9 88.8 89.5 87.5 95.0     Vapor-liquid Equilibriumfor Trichloroethylene/IsopropanolP = 100 kPa BPTemp.°C % by mole trichloroethylene liquid vapor 81.7 0.0 0.0 81.4 0.8 2.1 80.4 3.2 8.0 79.3 6.8 14.7 78.3 10.6 20.9 77.2 15.6 27.3 76.3 21.8 33.7 75.6 29.0 39.4 75.2 35.7 43.7 74.9 43.3 47.7 74.8 50.9 50.8 74.8 57.3 53.9 75.0 63.2 56.2 75.3 69.5 58.7 75.7 75.2 61.1 76.2 79.8 64.1 77.4 86.2 68.8 78.9 90.8 74.5 80.5 94.1 80.1 81.3 94.9 83.0 82.5 96.7 87.1 83.5 97.9 90.7 84.2 98.5 92.9 85.0 99.1 95.1 86.4 100.0 100.0

Spectral data

UV-Vis λmax ? nm Extinction coefficient, ε ? IR Major absorption bands ? cm−1 NMR Proton NMR   Carbon-13 NMR   Other NMR data   MS Masses of main fragments  

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