Sodium dichromate (production)

The activity generating the emissions is sodium dichromate production. The reference product is sodium dichromate. Sodium dichromate is an inorganic substance with a CAS no. : 010588-01-9. It is called disodium;oxido-(oxido(dioxo)chromio)oxy-dioxochromium under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: Cr2Na2O7. It is solid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure and appears as orange-red to brownish crystalls, which are water soluble. It is highly toxic (carcinogenic, mutagenic, toxic to reproduction, skin sensitising, respiratory sensitising). It is modelled as a pure substance. Modelling this substance in a solution requires the user to add the solvent of their choice in their models. There is no publicly available information about the consumption of this substance on a consumer level. On industrial sites, the substance is used for the manufacture of products in the following sectors: chemicals and wood preservation. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/9402/documentation.