Dichloromethane eats ozone

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Hardly a surprise given its chemistry;
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/ ... id=1408396

Is this likely to lead to restrictions on its use in analytical labs ?

Peter
Peter Apps
Peter, given how long it took the world to restrict CFCs, I suspect we'll be long-since retired before MeCl2 is restricted. You can still buy R22 Freon today, a couple of decades after its use was discontinued in auto air conditioners.

In any case, analytical sample prep is only a drop in the bucket (okay, bad analogy) compared to the use of MeCl2 in industrial processes.
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I see that its atmospheric concentration is slowly increasing:
https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/hats/gases/CH2Cl2.html
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