VINYL FLUORIDE

📋 Quick facts

Description: VINYL FLUORIDE — VINYL FLUORIDE. Formula: C2H3F. MW: 46.04. IUPAC: fluoroethene.

Quick Facts:

• Category: other
• Also Known As: Vinyl fluoride

⚗️ Chemical Overview

Vinyl Fluoride can cause cancer according to The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Vinyl fluoride, stabilized appears as a colorless gas with a faint ethereal odor. Shipped as a confined liquid under its vapor pressure. Any leak can either be liquid or vapor. Contact with the liquid can cause frostbite. Easily ignited. Vapors are heavier than air. Can asphyxiate by the displacement of air. Under prolonged exposure to fire or intense heat the containers may rupture violently and rocket. Fluoroethene is a gas molecular entity and a monohaloethene.

Source(s): ChEBI, California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), CAMEO Chemicals, via PubChem

📊 Comedogenicity

🛡️ Safety rating

Safety tier is a starting heuristic from regulatory status and comedogenic rating, not a dermatological verdict — see our Terms for the full disclaimer. Research confidence reflects how many real cited studies back this ingredient, not the strength of their findings.

🌍 Regulatory Status

💧 Skin Type Compatibility

⚠️ Don’t Combine With

📚 Research & Evidence

🔬 The Science

📄 Related Research

Matched by search — not necessarily verified support for every statement above.

• Unknown authors (1995). Vinyl fluoride. IARC Monogr Eval Carcinog Risks Hum.
• Unknown authors (2004). Vinyl fluoride. Rep Carcinog.
• Unknown authors (1986). Vinyl fluoride. IARC Monogr Eval Carcinog Risk Chem Hum.
• National Toxicology Program (2002). Vinyl fluoride. Rep Carcinog.

🧴 Products Containing VINYL FLUORIDE