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COMPOUND: SYNONYMS: eyes: SKIN: ]NGESTION: inhalation: COMMENTS: IHG: odor: references: author: checked by: issue date: HYDROCHLORIC ACID, ANHYDROUS HYDROGEN CHLORIDE; ANHYDROUS HYDROCHLORIC ACID. VAPOR CAN CAUSE SEVERE BURNS RESULTING IN PARTIAL OR TOTAL LOSS OF VISION. GAS CAN BE ABSORBED INTO PERSPIRATION, CREATING A BURNING SENSATION. CONTACT WITH VAPORS OR LIQUID MAY PRODUCE BURNS, ULCERATION AND SCARRING. REPEATED EXPOSURES MAY LEAD TO DERMATITIS. ALTHOUGH NOT LIKELY TO OCC-UR IN NORMAL HAND LING, SWALLOWING EVEN SMALL AMOUNTS MAY LEAD TO TISSUE DAMAGE IN THE MOUTH, ESOPHAGUS AND STOMACH. ACUTE -- IMMEDIATE COUGH OR CHOKING SENSATION AND EXTREME NOSE AND THROAT IRRITATION ARE RESPONSES TO BREATHING VAPORS OR MISTS WITH POSSIBLE LUNG DAMAGE. CHRONIC -- REPEATED OVEREXPOSURES CAN CAUSE ULCERATION OF THE NOSE AND THROAT, EROSION OF THE TEETH AND TIGHTNESS OF THE CHEST. VOLUNTARY GROSS OVEREXPOSURE IS UNLIKELY IN LIGHT OF THE IRRITATING PROPERTIES OF THE CHEMICAL. TLV: 5 PPM CEILING (7 MG/M3) SET TO PREVENT SERIOUS PULMONARY INJURY. SIGNIFICANT IRRITANT EFFECTS MAY STILL BE PRESENT. THRESHOLD AT 5 PPM. "OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE", HEW/N10SH, 1977; TLV DOCUMENTATION, ACG1H, 1977. W. E. LEDFORD C. E. HALPHEN, INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE J. E. BETSO, TOXICOLOGY M. F. CURRIER, MEDICAL 5/5/80 RESTRICTED: for use within The Dow Chemical Company only. DO 088399 CONFTDFNTTAl.