Colorless Liquefied Gas Refrigerant Gas Sulfur Hexafluoride as a Dielectric Gas Electron Grade Industrial Grade

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811-97-2.mol

For domestic refrigeration and automobile air conditioners. These devices began using 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane in the early 1990s as a replacement for the more environmentally harmful R-12 and retrofit kits are available to convert units that were originally R-12-equipped. Other uses include plastic foam blowing, as a cleaning solvent, a propellant for the delivery of pharmaceuticals (e.g. bronchodilators), wine cork removers, gas dusters and in air driers for removing the moisture from compressed air. 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane has also been used to cool computers in some overclocking attempts. It is also commonly used as a propellant for airsoft airguns. The gas is often mixed with a silicon-based lubricant.

For a clear liquid which boils when exposed to atmospheric pressure at room temperature (as seen here) and can be extracted from common "canned air" canisters by simply inverting them during use.

for extraction of flavor and fragrance compounds, as a possible alternative to other organic solvents and supercritical carbon dioxide.It can also be used as a solvent in organic chemistry, both in liquid and supercritical fluid. It is used in the resistive plate chamber particle detectors in the Large Hadron Collider. It is also used for other types of particle detectors, e.g. some cryogenic particle detectors. It can be used as an alternative to sulfur hexafluoride in magnesium smelting as a shielding gas.

Its arc-quenching properties are poor, but its dielectric properties are fairly good.