IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database
NIST Standard Reference Database 106


Glass Ball as Bullet Solubility System: Tetrachloromethane (carbon tetrachloride) with Water

Components:
   (1) Seawater; ; []  NIST Chemistry WebBook for detail
   (2) Tetrachloromethane (carbon tetrachloride); CCl4; [56-23-5]  NIST Chemistry WebBook for detail

Original Measurements:
   Liss, P.S.; Slater, P.G., Nature 1974, 247, 181-4.

Variables:
   Temperature = 293 K

Prepared By:
   A. L. Horvath

Experimental Data:   (Notes on the Nomenclature)
  
t/°CHenry's law constant [(dimensionless)]102 * Mass Fraction w1 (compiler) 105 * Mole Fraction x1 (compiler)
201.087.22 x 10-28.46
Notes:
   1  Obtained from [mass(1) cm-3(air)/mass(1) cm-3(seawater)].

Method/Apparatus/Procedure:
   Details are not available except that the data originate elsewhere (ref. 1).

Source and Purity of Materials:
   (1) Source and purity not given.
   (2) Samples from Atlantic.

Estimated Errors:
   Solubility: Not specified.
   Temperature: ± 2 K (compiler).

References:
   1 Lovelock, J. E. Personal communication.