Category: natural substances and extractives
US / EU / FDA / JECFA / FEMA / FLAVIS / Scholar / Patent Information:
Physical Properties:
Appearance: | colorless clear liquid (est) |
Assay: | 95.00 to 100.00 %
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Food Chemicals Codex Listed: | No |
Specific Gravity: | 0.89200 to 0.90400 @ 20.00 °C.
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Pounds per Gallon - (est).: | 7.431 to 7.531
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Refractive Index: | 1.51100 to 1.51800 @ 20.00 °C.
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Melting Point: | -25.00 °C. @ 760.00 mm Hg
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Boiling Point: | 175.00 to 177.00 °C. @ 760.00 mm Hg
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Vapor Pressure: | 1.447000 mmHg @ 25.00 °C. (est) |
Flash Point: | 119.00 °F. TCC ( 48.33 °C. )
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logP (o/w): | 3.660 |
Soluble in: |
| alcohol | | water, 75.2 mg/L @ 25 °C (exp) |
Insoluble in: |
| water |
Organoleptic Properties:
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Odor and/or flavor descriptions from others (if found). |
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Cosmetic Information:
Suppliers:
Safety Information:
Preferred SDS: View |
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Hazards identification |
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Classification of the substance or mixture |
GHS Classification in accordance with 29 CFR 1910 (OSHA HCS) |
None found. |
GHS Label elements, including precautionary statements |
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Hazard statement(s) |
None found. |
Precautionary statement(s) |
None found. |
Oral/Parenteral Toxicity: |
oral-rat LDLo 10 mL/kg LUNGS, THORAX, OR RESPIRATION: "FIBROSIS, FOCAL (PNEUMOCONIOSIS)"
BLOOD: HEMORRHAGE
LUNGS, THORAX, OR RESPIRATION: ACUTE PULMONARY EDEMA AMA Archives of Industrial Health. Vol. 19, Pg. 403, 1959.
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Dermal Toxicity: |
Not determined
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Inhalation Toxicity: |
Not determined
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Safety in Use Information:
Category: | natural substances and extractives |
Recommendation for hemimellitene usage levels up to: | | not for fragrance use.
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Recommendation for hemimellitene flavor usage levels up to: |
| not for flavor use.
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Safety References:
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Other Information:
Potential Blenders and core components note
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Occurrence (nature, food, other): note
Synonyms:
| benzene, 1,2,3-trimethyl- | | hemellitol | | hemimellitol | | methyl xylene | 1,2,3- | trimethyl benzene | 1,2,3- | trimethyl-benzene | 1,2,3- | trimethylbenzene | | xyellenol 100 | o-3- | xylenol |
Articles:
PubMed: | Antimicrobial Potential and Chemical Characterization of Serbian Liverwort (Porella arboris-vitae): SEM and TEM Observations. |
PubMed: | Volatile organic compounds from Centaurium erythraea Rafn (Croatia) and the antimicrobial potential of its essential oil. |
PubMed: | Volatile organic compounds from Centaurium erythraea Rafn (Croatia) and the antimicrobial potential of its essential oil. |
PubMed: | Contrasting effects of 4-week inhalation exposure to pseudocumene or hemimellitene on sensitivity to amphetamine and propensity to amphetamine sensitization in the rat. |
PubMed: | Assessment of long-term neurotoxic effects of exposure to mesitylene (1,3,5-trimethylbenzene) based on the analysis of selected behavioral responses. |
PubMed: | Effects of occupational exposure to a mixture of solvents on the inner ear: a field study. |
PubMed: | [Specific nature of the software used to construct simulations: physiologically-based toxicokinetic models]. |
PubMed: | Behavioral effects following subacute inhalation exposure to m-xylene or trimethylbenzene in the rat: a comparative study. |
PubMed: | Subchronic inhalation toxicity of 1,2,3-trimethylbenzene (hemimellitene) in rats. |
PubMed: | Changes in electrocortical arousal following acute trimethylbenzene administration in rats. |
PubMed: | Effects of acute exposure to aromatic hydrocarbons C 9 on locomotor activity in rats. Trimethylbenzene isomers. |
PubMed: | Identification of the dimethylbenzyl mercapturic acid in urine of rats treated with 1,2,3-trimethylbenzene. |
PubMed: | Neurotoxicity assessment of selected organic solvents based on spontaneous and evoked cortical and hippocampal activity in rats. |
PubMed: | Behavioural changes following a four-week inhalation exposure to hemimellitene (1,2,3-trimethylbenzene) in rats. |
PubMed: | Genotoxicity evaluation of trimethylbenzenes. |
PubMed: | Biological monitoring of experimental human exposure to trimethylbenzene. |
PubMed: | Respiratory irritative effects of trimethylbenzenes: an experimental animal study. |
PubMed: | Toxicokinetics of inhaled trimethylbenzenes in man. |
PubMed: | Neurotoxic effects of acute and subchronic inhalation exposure to trimethylbenzene isomers (pseudocumene, mesitylene, hemimellitene) in rats. |
PubMed: | [Determination of dimethylbenzoic acid isomers in urine by gas chromatography]. |
PubMed: | Application of gas chromatography in conjunction with enrichment of samples on active carbon to determine low concentrations of organic compounds in air. Part I. Aromatic hydrocarbons. |
PubMed: | Kinetics of solvents release from paint coatings. I. Paint coating hardened at +20 degrees C temperature. |
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