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Top 5 Suspected Everyday Carcinogens in the American Cancer Society's Scary New Report

(July 15) -- Some carcinogens you already know and fear: cigarettes, asbestos, smoked meat. But what about the ones you've never even heard of? That's the crux of a new report from the American Cancer Society (ACS), which rounds up 20 "suspected carcinogens" the organization would like to see studied more extensively. Of...

Background on Tetrachloroethylene

Tetrachloroethylene, also known under its systematic name tetrachloroethene and many other names, is a chlorocarbon with the formula Cl2C=CCl2. It is a colourless liquid widely used for dry cleaning of fabrics, hence it is sometimes called "dry-cleaning fluid." It has a sweet odor detectable by most people at a concentration of 1 part per million (1 ppm).

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