I'm thinking for a theoretical spill exercise, you'd have more fun with a solid dissolved in the benzene.  With carbon tet or chloroform, once the spill evaporates, it's gone.  DDT, naphthalene, etc. leaves you a nice toxic residue to contend with after the solvent goes away.   PCBs could also be entertaining, bringing TSCA requirements / clean-up standards into the discussion.

                        Don

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Chloroforms seems like a good candidate.

 

Dave

 

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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Looking for suggestions: I need help finding the name of a chemical

 

I need the collective wisdom of the group-

 

I'm trying to think of any chemical that is soluble in benzene and has NO significant hazardous characteristics other than toxicity (i.e., not flammable, corrosive, water-reactive, etc.).  However, the more toxic it is, the better-

 

I do not want the actual chemical - just the name.  I'm trying to create a hypothetical "what-if" scenario for an upcoming discussion about responding to chemical spills in a laboratory.

 

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Thanks,

SJM

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