Is butanol an inhalation hazzard?

Answer 1

The gold standard for learning if a chemical substance is potentially harmful is the MSDS (Material Data Safety Sheet). You can get these online by typing the chemical name and MSDS into any search engine.

This data includes study info. about skin contact, inhalation, ingestion, mucous membranes (eyes, etc) and then gives you the recommended PPE (personal protective equipment, such as goggles, gloves, etc) as well as describing any precautions that should be used when working with the sunstance.

The other reason MSDS info is so great is that it can also warn you about both acute (short exposure) and chronic (long-term) exposure, as well as any potential mutagenic/carcinogenic effects and whether the chemical can be harmful to a fetus (teratogenic).

It is federally mandated that an MSDS sheet is provided with the chemical when it is ordered, and it is also required to keep a book of all MSDS sheets in the room where chemicals are stored and/or used.

Please see the MSDS for butanol at the following site. http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/~hmc/hsci/chemicals/1-butanol.html

This version is very user-friendly, and you can educated yourself about the hazards and what you need to do to protect yourself!

Answer 2

No.

The only hazzard butanol has is that it's highly flammable and shouldn't be taken orally. Inhaling it is okay. Butanol is also used as a base for perfumes.

Answer 3

Any alcohol like any molecule can be toxic: it depends mainly on the dose. Butanol has four carbon atomes and is less toxic than methanol, propanol and pentanol (1,3 and 5 carbone atomes). It can be degraded safely in the Krebs cycle or citric acid cycle by oxidation.

Answer 4

yes!!!!