Carbon tetrachloride (data page)
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This page provides supplementary chemical data on carbon tetrachloride.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source such as SIRI, and follow its directions. MSDS for carbon tetrachloride is available at Fisher Scientific.
Structure and properties
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| Index of refraction, nD | 1.460 |
| Abbe number | ? |
| Dielectric constant, εr | 2.2379 ε0 at 20 °C |
| Bond strength | ? |
| Bond length | 175pm |
| Bond angle | 109.5° Cl–C–Cl |
| Magnetic susceptibility | ? |
| Surface tension | 28.0 dyn/cm at 10 °C 26.8 dyn/cm at 20 °C 22.2 dyn/cm at 75 °C |
| Viscosity[1] | 0.9578 mPa·s at 21 °C 0.901 mPa·s at 25 °C 0.7928 mPa·s at 35 °C 0.4056 mPa·s at 99 °C |
| Thermal conductivity[2] (units of W m−1 K−1) |
0.1093 at 270 K 0.1074 at 280 K 0.1055 at 290 K 0.1036 at 300 K 0.1017 at 310 K 0.0997 at 320 K |
Thermodynamic properties
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| Triple point | 249 K (–24 °C), ? Pa |
| Critical point | 556.4 K (283.3 °C), 4493 kPa, 3.625 mol.dm−3 |
| Std enthalpy change of fusion, ΔfusH |
2.52 kJ/mol |
| Std entropy change of fusion, ΔfusS |
10.1 J/(mol·K) |
| Std enthalpy change of vaporization, ΔvapH |
32.54 kJ/mol |
| Std entropy change of vaporization, ΔvapS |
92.82 J/(mol·K) at 76 °C |
| Template:Chembox header | Solid properties | |
| Std enthalpy change of formation, ΔfH |
? kJ/mol |
| Standard molar entropy, S |
? J/(mol K) |
| Heat capacity, cp | 44.22 J/(mol K) at -227 °C (46 K) |
| Template:Chembox header | Liquid properties | |
| Std enthalpy change of formation, ΔfH |
–128.4 kJ/mol |
| Standard molar entropy, S |
214.39 J/(mol K) |
| Enthalpy of combustion, ΔcH |
–359.9 kJ/mol |
| Heat capacity, cp | 131.3 J/(mol K) |
| Template:Chembox header | Gas properties | |
| Std enthalpy change of formation, ΔfH |
–95.98 kJ/mol |
| Standard molar entropy, S |
309.65 J/(mol K) |
| Heat capacity, cp | 82.65 J/(mol K) |
| van der Waals' constants[3] | a = 2066 L2 kPa/mol2 b = 0.1383 liter per mole |
Vapor pressure of liquid
| Template:Chembox header | P in mm Hg | 1 | 10 | 40 | 100 | 400 | 760 | 1520 | 3800 | 7600 | 15200 | 30400 | 45600 |
| Template:Chembox header | T in °C | –50.0(s) | –19.6 | 4.3 | 23.0 | 57.8 | 76.7 | 102.0 | 141.7 | 178.0 | 222.0 | 276.0 | — |
Table data obtained from CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 47th ed. Note that "(s)" annotation indicates equilibrium temperature of vapor over solid. Otherwise the temperature is equilibrium of vapor over liquid.

Distillation data
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Spectral data
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| λmax | ? nm |
| Extinction coefficient, ε | ? |
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| Major absorption bands | ? cm−1 |
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References
- ↑ Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, 10th ed. pp. 1669–1674
- ↑ Touloukian, Y.S., Liley, P.E., and Saxena, S.C. Thermophysical properties of matter – the TPRC data series. Volume 3. Thermal conductivity – nonmetallic liquids and gases. Data book. 1970.
- ↑ CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 47th ed, p D-104
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