On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:29:52 +0000, Usenet Nutter
wrote:

On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:36:35 +0000, Tim W wrote:

On an aside, can you still get carbon tetrachloride? Wasn't on that site
posted a few posts back, but chloroform was...

Carbon Tet was the main constituent of stuff for taking stains out of
clothes was it not? no doubt been banned long tme ago.


Carbon tetrachloride is an ozone depleting substance and also a
greenhouse gas. It hasn't been banned, but its use has been strictly
limited by several pieces of EU and UK legislation.

It was used in industrial quantities in the manufacture of
ozone-depleting refrigerants R-11 and R-12 which have now themselves
been banned.