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Definition of Tetrachlorethylene

1. Noun. Anthelmintic agent used against hookworm and other nematodes.

Medical Definition of Tetrachlorethylene

1. An anthelmintic against hookworm and other nematodes. Synonym: carbon dichloride, ethylene tetrachloride, tetrachloroethylene. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetrachlorethylene

Literary usage of Tetrachlorethylene

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Inorganic Chemistry: Vol. II. The Metals by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1877)
"When heated with potassium hydroxide it yields a mixture of potassium bromide and carbonate. 181. Carbon Chlorobromide, or tetrachlorethylene Dibromide, ..."

2. A Manual of Inorganic Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1874)
"When heated with potassium hydroxide it yields a mixture of potassium bromide and carbonate. 181. Carbon Chlorobromide, or tetrachlorethylene Dibromide, ..."

3. A Short Text-book of Inorganic Chemistry by Hermann Kolbe (1884)
"C2Cl4 This tetrachlorethylene, like ethylene, unites with two atoms of chlorine, ... tetrachlorethylene dichloride (carbon hexachloride) ..."

4. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"... as amyl nitrite prepared in a similar way is doubtless a nitrous ether. When tetrachlorethylene is heated with nitrogen tetroxide to 110°—120°, ..."

5. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"... liquid having a sweet burning taste and a pleasant honey-like smell, boiling at 159° and having at 0° a specific gravity of 1-7089.« tetrachlorethylene ..."

6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"With excess of hydrogen at the same temperature, tetrachlorethylene (carbon ... Carbon trichloride, Carbon haca/Monde, tetrachlorethylene dichloride, ..."

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