The Prescription of Drugs Ontology

Last uploaded: September 4, 2020
Id http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_47554
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Preferred Name

Ethyl Chloride

Definitions
The simplest and least toxic member of the class of chloroethanes, that is ethane in which a single hydrogen is substituted by a chlorine. A colourless gas at room temperature and pressure (boiling point 12degreeC), it is used as a mild topical anaesthetic to numb the skin prior to ear piercing, skin biopsies, etc., and is also used in the treatment of sports injuries. It was formerly used in the production of tetraethyllead.
Synonyms
Muriatic ether
monochlorethane
aethylii chloridum
Aethylchlorid
mono-chloroethane
1-chloroethane
monochloroethane
ethyl chloride
Chloraethan
Ethyl chloride
C2H5Cl
EtCl
chlorethyl
chloroethane
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