Hexachloroethane (perchloroethane) is an organochlorine compound with the chemical formula . Its structure is . It is a white or colorless solid at room temperature with a camphor-like odor. It has been used by the military in smoke compositions, such as base-eject smoke munitions (smoke grenades).
Hexachloroethane (perchloroethane) is an organochlorine compound with the chemical formula . Its structure is . It is a white or colorless solid at room temperature with a camphor-like odor. It has been used by the military in smoke compositions, such as base-eject smoke munitions (smoke grenades).
==History== Hexachloroethane was discovered along with carbon tetrachloride by Michael Faraday in 1820. Faraday obtained it by chlorinating ethylene. He named it "perchloride of carbon". Faustino Malaguti obtained hexachloroethane by exposing a mixture of tetrachloroethylene and chlorine to sunlight. He termed it "chloride of chlorethose" as it was produced by the chlorination of tetrachloroethylene (then known as "chlorethose").
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).