CHEMICAL DATA NOTEBOOK SERIES #43 PHOSGENE
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
PHOSGENE IS AN extremely toxic, water-reactive, corrosive, irritating, colorless-to-light-yellow gas with an odor that ranges front newly mowed grass at low concentrations to very pungent at high concentrations. It is usually shipped and stored as a liquefied gas. Phosgene is used in the manufacture of dyes, herbicides, insecticides, pharmaceuticals, some plastics, and many other chemicals. It is useful in metallurgy and was previously used as a poison gas in wartime. Its chemical formula is COCl2
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