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car·bon di·sul·fide (CS2),

an extremely flammable (flashpoint -30°C), colorless, toxic liquid with a characteristic ethereal odor (fetid when impure); it is a parasiticide.
Synonym(s): carbon bisulfide
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carbon disulfide

A highly flammable volatile liquid, absorbable through the skin, lungs and GI mucosa. It is a common building block in organic chemistry. It is used as a non-polar solvent to produce viscose rayon, cellophane, and carbon tetrachloride, as well as for fumigating grain, chemical analysis, degreasing, dry cleaning and oil extraction.
 
Toxicology
Neurotoxic, dermotoxic; it may retard growth and sensory development. It is teratogenic in rats; reproductive risk is uncertain, but likely.
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As shown in Table 2, the order of extraction capacity for Huadian oil shale was chloroform > carbon disulfide > methanol > toluene > n-hexane.
The resulted mixture was cooled at 10[degrees]C in an ice bath; then (0.01 mol) carbon disulfide was added slowly over the course of 10 min.
Tang et al., "The catalytic hydrolysis of carbon disulfide on Fe-Cu-Ni/AC catalyst at low temperature," Journal of Molecular Catalysis A, vol.
"The strength of this social learning on food choice is huge," says Galef, whose research has found that mixing carbon disulfide with rat poison draws four times as many rodents to the bait.
Carbon disulfide was the only volatile sulfur compound whose levels were reduced by using irradiation.
Carbon disulfide (0.5 milliliters) was added to the activated carbon strip samples.
The key technical factor in this process is the choice of the solvent: the best being carbon disulfide (Nassau, 1972), a very volatile, poisonous, potentially explosive and carcinogenic fluid.
Chemical and physical agents that are reproductive hazards for women in the workplace include: cancer treatment drugs (health care workers, pharmacists); certain ethylene glycol ethers (electronic and semiconductor workers); carbon disulfide (viscose rayon workers); lead (battery makers, solderers, welders, radiator repairers, bridge repainters, firing range workers, home remodelers); ionizing radiation such as X-ray and gamma rays (health care workers, dental personnel, atomic workers); and strenuous physical labor (many types of workers).
The PELs for the following 20 chemicals will be the first to be addressed: carbon disulfide, carbon monoxide, chloroform, dimethyl sulfate, epichlorohydrin, ethylene dichloride, glutaraldehyde, n-hexane, 2-hexanone, hydrazine, hydrogen sulfide, manganese and compounds, mercury and compounds, nitrogen dioxide, perchloroethylene, sulfur dioxide, toluene, toluene diisocyanate, trimellitic anhydride, vinyl bromide.
By studying light given off by the splattering gases, scientists have discovered some pretty stinky stuff in Jupiter's atmosphere: chemicals such as hydrogen sulfide (a poisonous gas that smells like rotten eggs) and carbon disulfide. Since these sulfur-containing chemicals aren't usually seen on Jupiter's cloud tops, it's possible that the impacts dredged them up from as deep as 20 kilometers before throwing them into space.
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