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Uses? I thought nitrobenzene was used in racing and rocket fuel? Production? Why does it form a nitrous group (NO2 )rather than a nitro/nitrate group (ONO2 or NO3) on nitration? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.176.118.196 ( talk) 13:20, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
Not that I want to start a "Nitrobenzene in Popular Culture" or "Nitrobenzene in Fiction" heading, or anything horrible like that, but in the Nero Wolfe novel "The Red Box" by Rex Stout, a man is murdered by the device of suspending a small sauce dish containing "a couple of ounces" of nitrobenzene to the inside of the roof of his car with tape. When he gets into his car, he jostles the dish and the nitrobenzene spills on his head and down his back. He dies within a minute. Other people who try to help him are also exposed to the poison and one has to be hospitalized. I've made a link in the article, changing the unlinked "TLV" to "Threshold Limit Value" but for a substance this toxic, perhaps it would also be good to include what constitutes a toxic dose, whether by swallowing, exposure to the skin or whatever. 24.27.31.170 ( talk) 00:31, 11 September 2011 (UTC) Eric
so if an old name of nitrobenzene is oil or essence of mirbane WTH is a mirbane? OED says: 1857 W. A. MILLER Elem. Chem.: Org. (1862) ix. 656 It [sc. Nitrobenzol] has a very sweet taste, and an odour resembling that of bitter almonds, which has led to its use in perfumery under the name of Essence of Mirbane.
The only other thing I could find via goodgle was that mirbane is an albanian female name. Litch ( talk) 05:53, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
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Uses? I thought nitrobenzene was used in racing and rocket fuel? Production? Why does it form a nitrous group (NO2 )rather than a nitro/nitrate group (ONO2 or NO3) on nitration? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.176.118.196 ( talk) 13:20, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
Not that I want to start a "Nitrobenzene in Popular Culture" or "Nitrobenzene in Fiction" heading, or anything horrible like that, but in the Nero Wolfe novel "The Red Box" by Rex Stout, a man is murdered by the device of suspending a small sauce dish containing "a couple of ounces" of nitrobenzene to the inside of the roof of his car with tape. When he gets into his car, he jostles the dish and the nitrobenzene spills on his head and down his back. He dies within a minute. Other people who try to help him are also exposed to the poison and one has to be hospitalized. I've made a link in the article, changing the unlinked "TLV" to "Threshold Limit Value" but for a substance this toxic, perhaps it would also be good to include what constitutes a toxic dose, whether by swallowing, exposure to the skin or whatever. 24.27.31.170 ( talk) 00:31, 11 September 2011 (UTC) Eric
so if an old name of nitrobenzene is oil or essence of mirbane WTH is a mirbane? OED says: 1857 W. A. MILLER Elem. Chem.: Org. (1862) ix. 656 It [sc. Nitrobenzol] has a very sweet taste, and an odour resembling that of bitter almonds, which has led to its use in perfumery under the name of Essence of Mirbane.
The only other thing I could find via goodgle was that mirbane is an albanian female name. Litch ( talk) 05:53, 16 March 2012 (UTC)