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Phosgene
carbon oxychloride, carbonyl chloride, chlorocarbonic acid, CO gas at ordinary temperatures. Boiling PHOTOCHEMISTRY Cl2. A colorless liquid, occurring as a trichloride of phosphorus, PCl3+H2O= acid. forming carbon dioxide and hydrochloric phosphoric acid. point 8.2 C., specific gravity 1.432 at 0° it forms phosphoreted hydrogen and C. Soluble in acetic acid and benzine. In contact with moisture it decomposes, forming carbon dioxide and hydrochloric acid.
CO Cl2 + H2O = CO2 + 2 HCl through charcoal with or without a cat- passing carbon monoxide and chlorine and ammonium chloride. Prepared by passing carbon monoxide and chlorine through charcoal with or without a catof in the World War, phosgene being ing gas at temperatures point, and this property was made use of in the World War, phosgene being used as a filling for shells, usually in combination with other gases. It is also used for bleaching sand employed in glass manufacture, tion of dye stuffs. re, and in the preparatures above its boiling ling