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formaldehyde
Chemical compound
Also known as Formic aldehyde · Formaline · Fannoform · Chlodithane · Formalith · Methaldehyde
- Formula
- CH₂O
1
- CH₂O
- Mass
- 30.011 Da
1
- 30.011 Da
- Melting point
- -134°F
- , -92°C
- Boiling point
- -6°F
- , -19.1°C
- Density
- 0.8153 g/cm³
Overview
Chemistry
All data
208 statements · 62% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Canonical SMILES
- C=O
1
- C=O
- Immediately dangerous to life or health
- 24.6 milligram per cubic metre
- Vapor pressure
- 1 standard atmosphere temperature: 68°F · criterion used: minimum
- Lower flammable limit
- 7 volume percent
- Upper flammable limit
- 73 volume percent
- Ionization energy
- 10.88 eV
- 10.87 eV
- Time-weighted average exposure limit
- 0.02 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: none · runtime: 10 h
- 0.92 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: United States · runtime: 8 h
- Ceiling exposure limit
- 0.123 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: none · runtime: 15 min
- Short-term exposure limit
- 2.46 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: United States · runtime: 15 min
- Standard enthalpy of formation
- -115.9 kilojoule per mole
- Subject has role
- disinfectant
1
- allergen
1
- primary metabolite
- carcinogen
1
Sources- 1.Stated in California Proposition 65 list of chemicalsoehha.ca.gov/chemicals/formaldehydeRetrieved 2020-02-26
- occupational carcinogen
- disinfectant
- Safety classification and labelling
- NFPA 704: Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response nfpa health: 3 · nfpa fire: 4 · nfpa instability: 0
- Part of
- formaldehyde metabolic process subject has role: participant
1
- formaldehyde biosynthetic process subject has role: product
1
- formaldehyde catabolic process subject has role: reactant
1
- response to formaldehyde subject has role: reactant
1
- cellular response to formaldehyde subject has role: reactant
1
- sarcosine oxidase activity
1
- formaldehyde dehydrogenase activity
1
- vanillate monooxygenase activity
1
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- methanethiol oxidase activity
1
- methanesulfonate monooxygenase activity
1
- 4-methoxybenzoate monooxygenase (O-demethylating) activity
1
- dichloromethane dehalogenase activity
1
- hexulose-6-phosphate synthase activity
1
- alkylhalidase activity
1
- dimethylaniline-N-oxide aldolase activity
1
- dimethylglycine oxidase activity
1
- formaldehyde dismutase activity
1
- formaldehyde transketolase activity
1
- 2-dehydropantoate aldolase activity
1
- ketotetrose-phosphate aldolase activity
1
- methanol dehydrogenase activity
1
- methylglutamate dehydrogenase activity
1
- N6-methyl-lysine oxidase activity
1
- trimethylamine-oxide aldolase activity
1
- S-(hydroxymethyl)glutathione synthase activity
1
- 4-chloro-allylglycine synthase activity
1
- 4-methylaminobutyrate oxidase (demethylating) activity
1
- thebaine 6-O-demethylase activity
1
- dimethylamine dehydrogenase activity
1
- histone H3-methyl-lysine-36 demethylase activity
1
- trimethylamine dehydrogenase activity
1
- oxidative DNA demethylase activity
1
- codeine O-demethylase activity
1
- histone H3-tri/di-methyl-lysine-27 demethylase activity
1
- histone H3-di/monomethyl-lysine-9 demethylase activity
1
- histone H3-tri/dimethyl-lysine-36 demethylase activity
1
- methylamine dehydrogenase (amicyanin) activity
1
- mRNA N6-methyladenosine dioxygenase activity
1
- mRNA N1-methyladenosine dioxygenase activity
1
- histone H3-di/monomethyl-lysine-36 demethylase activity
1
- histone H3-tri/dimethyl-lysine-9 demethylase activity
1
- histone H3-tri/di/monomethyl-lysine-4 demethylase activity
1
- histone H3-di/monomethyl-lysine-4 FAD-dependent demethylase activity
1
- formaldehyde metabolic process subject has role: participant
- Electric dipole moment
- 2.332 debye
On other databases
92 identifiers linking formaldehyde across the web's reference databases
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID300013020
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID12062041r
- BNCF Thesaurus ID21880
- CA PROP 65 IDformaldehyde
- CAMEO Chemicals ID769
- CAS Registry Number50-00-0
- ChEBI ID16842
- ChEMBL IDCHEMBL1255
- ChemSpider ID692
- De Agostini IDformalina
- DeCS ID5691
- Dewey Decimal Classification547.036
- DrugBank IDDB03843
- DrugCentral ID3244
- DSSTOX compound identifierDTXCID30637
- DSSTox substance IDDTXSID7020637
- E numberE240
- EC number200-001-8
- ECHA Substance Infocard ID100.000.002
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDscience/formaldehyde
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDformique-methanal-formaldehyde
- Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID210950
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)4NlJiH
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)157034
- FAST ID932927
- Freebase ID/m/0h3r1
- Gmelin number445
- GND ID4017845-6
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDmetanal
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0123226
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDformaldehyd
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDformal-degid-ddb867
- Guide to Pharmacology Ligand ID4196
- HCIS ID4750
- HSDB ID164
- Human Metabolome Database IDHMDB0001426
- ICSC ID0275
- IEDB Epitope ID116196
- InChIInChI=1S/CH2O/c1-2/h1H2
- InChIKeyWSFSSNUMVMOOMR-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- J-GLOBAL ID200907002384806700
- J9U entity ID987007545720905171
- KBpedia IDFormaldehyde
- KEGG IDD00017
- KNApSAcK IDC00050462
- Lex IDformaldehyd
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85050805
- MeSH descriptor IDD005557
- MeSH tree codeD02.047.407
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)2775930285
- Museum of Modern Art work ID2163
- NALT ID6180
- NDF-RT IDN0000147328
- NDL Authority ID00563450
- Nikkaji IDJ2.294B
- NL CR AUT IDph120287
- NSC number298885
- Open Library subject IDformaldehyde
- OpenAlex IDC2775930285
- OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID377
- PDB ligand IDFOR
- PDB structure ID3HBE
- PesticideInfo chemical IDPRI3355
- PM20 ware ID142479
- Probes And Drugs IDPD009378
- PubChem CID712
- Quora topic IDFormaldehyde
- Reaxys registry number1209228
- Römpp online IDRD-06-01629
- RTECS numberLP8925000
- RxNorm CUI4530
- Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri IDmaterias/1030667
- SPLASHsplash10-004i-9000000000-58b4df664ee160d1f943
- Store medisinske leksikon IDformaldehyd
- SureChEMBL ID35678
- Treccani IDformaldeide
- Treccani Vocabulary IDformaldeide
- Treccani's Dizionario di Medicina IDformaldeide
- Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana IDformaldeide
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID10337
- UM-BBD compound IDc0122
- UMLS CUIC0016564
- UN number2209
- UniChem compound ID442523
- UNII1HG84L3525
- UNSPSC code12352501
- WikiSkripta article ID7771
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID14897347-n
- Yale LUX IDconcept/1793a671-8406-4275-8c59-53122b4b98b0
- YSO ID16085