What is Tetranitromethane?

Tetranitromethane is a anemic chicken liquid. Irritates derma and respiratory tract. Very baneful by inhalation. Difficult to ignite. Burns at a abiding amount already ignited. Under abiding acknowledgment to blaze or calefaction containers may breach berserk and rocket Produces baneful oxides of nitrogen during combustion.

Tetranitromethane is a synthetic, oily, achromatic to anemic chicken aqueous that is baffling in baptize and acrid in booze and ether. Tetranitromethane is acclimated as an acid abettor in rocket propellants and explosives as able-bodied as an accretion to access the cetane amount of agent fuel. In science, it is acclimated as both an analytic reagent for the apprehension of bifold bonds in amoebic compounds and as a balmy nitrating reagent that reacts with tyrosine residues in proteins. The primary avenue of abeyant animal acknowledgment to tetranitromethane is inhalation. Acute assimilation acknowledgment to tetranitromethane can aftereffect in affliction of the respiratory tract, accretion of aqueous in the lungs (pulmonary edema) and arrest with the oxygen-carrying accommodation of red claret beef (methemoglobinemia). Contact with this admixture can could cause affliction of the eyes and skin. It is analytic advancing to be a animal carcinogen.