Property: Clear and colorless liquid, with a pungent odor, miscible with water, ethanol, glycerin and aether but not with carbon bisulfide. Specific gravity: 1.04928; melting point: 16.665±0.002℃; boiling point: 117.9℃; viscosity: 1.22 centipois （20℃）; flash point: 43℃ (closed cup); refractive index: 1.3715; burning point: 465℃. Frozen into ice at a temperature of less than 16℃.
Applications: As one of most important organic raw materials, it is mainly used in such products as Vinyl acetate, acetic anhydride, diketene, acetate ester, acetate, acetate fiber and chloroactic acid etc. It is an important raw material for synthesized fiber, gooey, medicines, pesticides and dyes, and also a good organic solvent. It is widely applied in such industries as of plastics, rubbers and printing etc. Manufacture of acetic anhydride, vinyl acetate; Widely usedinsolvents, dyes, celluloseacetate, pharmaceuticals, in-socticides, textile printing, photographic film and coagulating rubber latec.
