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Originally Posted by ColinTheAmpMan1
Quite so, Tony. I must have been on a different planet when I posted that. Organic carbon compounds with two carbon atoms are, of course, ethyl and ethylene.
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I picked up on it too - but by then Tony had put up his post.
Methylene chloride CH2Cl2 is a strange name, after all, 'methylene' doesn't exist! Dichloromethane is logical.
And whoever decided to rename carbon tetrachloride CCl4 as tetrachloromethane deserves to be shot - after all, we haven't renamed carbon dioxide CO2 as dioxymethane, have we? Or even oxymethanal or oxyformaldehyde? Which would be just as logical!
Traditional Nitromors indeed contains methylene chloride, and also methyl alcohol (dunno the proportions). Both nasty, but they do work well.
I haven't had any trouble with 'new' Nitromors, except that it takes ages. I tend to paint the stuff on, and if the paint is old I put the whole lot in a plastic bag, to stop it drying out (which is fatal, you can't shift it then).