Acetonitrile (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for acetonitrile. The reference product is acetonitrile. Acetonitrile is an organic substance with a CAS no. : 000075-05-8. It is called acetonitrile under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: C2H3N. It is liquid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure and has a faint odour. 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: laboratory chemicals, extraction agents, pH regulators and water treatment products, pharmaceuticals and washing & cleaning products. This substance is used for the synthesis of other substances (use as intermediate). The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/7379/documentation.