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car'bon tetrachlo'ride
a colorless, nonflammable, vaporous, toxic liquid, CCl
4, usually produced by the reaction of chlorine with carbon disulfide, methane, or other carbon-containing compounds: used mainly as a refrigerant, fire extinguisher, cleaning fluid, solvent, and insecticide. Also called
tetrachloromethane, perchloromethane. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.