Sodium cyanide (production)

The activity generating the emissions is sodium cyanide production. The Reference Product is sodium cyanide. Sodium cyanide is an inorganic substance with a CAS no. : 000143-33-9. It is called sodium;cyanide under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: CNNa. It is solid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure and appears as a white powder with a faint almond-like odor. It is soluble in water, ammonia, ethanol and methanol. 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. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/7997/documentation