The Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances

Selenium fluoride

RTECS #: VS9450000

CAS #: 7783-79-1

UPDATE: November 2004 MW: 192.96 MF: F6Se


NOTE:

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
  1. SYNONYMS:
  2. ACUTE TOXICITY DATA:
  3. REVIEWS:
  4. STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS:
  5. NIOSH DOCUMENTATION AND SURVEILLANCE:
  6. REFERENCES:

SYNONYMS:

  1. Selenium hexafluoride
  1. Selenium hexafluoride (ACGIH:OSHA)


SKIN AND EYE IRRITATION DATA AND REFERENCES:

ROUTE/
ORGANISM 		DOSE
EFFECT

 REFERENCE
N/R
 N/R N/R N/R


MUTATION DATA AND REFERENCES:

SYSTEM TEST ROUTE/
ORGANISM/
TISSUE 		DOSE REFERENCE
N/R N/R N/R N/R


REPRODUCTIVE EFFECTS DATA AND REFERENCES:

ROUTE/
ORGANISM 		DOSE
EFFECT

 REFERENCE
N/R
 N/R N/R N/R


TUMORIGENIC DATA AND REFERENCES:

ROUTE/
ORGANISM 		DOSE
EFFECT

 REFERENCE
N/R
 N/R N/R N/R


ACUTE TOXICITY DATA AND REFERENCES:

ROUTE/
ORGANISM 		DOSE
EFFECT

 REFERENCE
inhalation
guinea pig 		lowest published lethal concentration: 10 ppm/1 hour Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Acute pulmonary edema ATXKA8 18,140,1960
inhalation
mouse 		lowest published lethal concentration: 10 ppm/1 hour Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Acute pulmonary edema ATXKA8 18,140,1960
inhalation
rat 		lowest published lethal concentration: 10 ppm/1 hour Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Acute pulmonary edema ATXKA8 18,140,1960
inhalation
rat 		lowest published lethal concentration: 10 ppm N/R VCVN5* -,266,1993
inhalation
rabbit 		lowest published lethal concentration: 10 ppm/4 hour Lung, Thorax, or Respiration: Acute pulmonary edema ATXKA8 18,140,1960


OTHER MULTIPLE DOSE DATA AND REFERENCES:

ROUTE/
ORGANISM 		DOSE
EFFECT

 REFERENCE
N/R
 N/R N/R N/R


REVIEWS:

ORGANIZATION STANDARD
REFERENCE
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value time-weighted average 0.05 ppm DTLVS* TLV/BEI,2003


STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS:

ORGANIZATION STANDARD
REFERENCE
Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) STANDARD - air time-weighted average 0.05 ppm (0.4 mg/m3) DTLVS* 3,226,1971
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Permissible Exposure Limit (General Industry) 8 hour time-weighted average 0.05 ppm (0.4 mg(Se)/m3) CFRGBR 29,1910.1000,1994
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Permissible Exposure Limit (Construction) 8 hour time-weighted average 0.05 ppm (O.4 mg(Se)/m3) CFRGBR 29,1926.55,1994
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Permissible Exposure Limit (Shipyards) 8 hour time-weighted average 0.05 ppm (0.4 mg(Se)/m3) CFRGBR 29,1915.1000,1993
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Permissible Exposure Limit (Federal Contractors) 8 hour time-weighted average 0.05 ppm (0.4 mg(Se)/m3) CFRGBR 41,50-204.50,1994
Occupational Exposure Limit - AUSTRALIA time-weighted average 0.05 ppm (0.2 mg/m3), JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - AUSTRIA MAK 2.5 mg(F)/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - AUSTRIA MAK 0.1 mg(Se)/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - BELGIUM time-weighted average 0.05 ppm (0.16 mg/m3), JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - DENMARK time-weighted average 0.05 ppm (0.4 mg/m3), JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - FINLAND time-weighted average 0.05 ppm (0.4 mg/m3), short term exposure limit 0.15 ppm (1.2 mg/m3), JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - FRANCE VME 0.05 ppm (0.2 mg/m3), JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - JAPAN Occupational Exposure Limit 0.1 mg(Se)/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - THE NETHERLANDS MAC-TGG 0.2 mg(Se)/m3, 2003
Occupational Exposure Limit - NORWAY time-weighted average 0.05 ppm (0.4 mg/m3), JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - THE PHILIPPINES time-weighted average 0.05 ppm (0.4 mg/m3), JAN1993
Occupational Exposure Limit - POLAND MAC(time-weighted average) 1 mg(HF)/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - SWEDEN NGV 2 mg(F)/m3, JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - SWITZERLAND MAK- week 0.05 ppm (0.4 mg/m3), JAN1999
Occupational Exposure Limit - UNITED KINGDOM time-weighted average 0.1 mg(Se)/m3, SEP2000
Occupational Exposure Limit - UNITED KINGDOM time-weighted average 2.5 mg(F)/m3, SEP2000
Occupational Exposure Limit IN ARGENTINA, BULGARIA, COLOMBIA, JORDAN, KOREA American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value;

time-weighted average 0.05 ppm
Occupational Exposure Limit IN NEW ZEALAND, SINGAPORE, VIETNAM American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value
time-weighted average 0.05 ppm


NIOSH DOCUMENTATION AND SURVEILLANCE:

ORGANIZATION STANDARD or SURVEY
REFERENCE
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Recommended Exposure Level TO SELENIUM HEXAFLUORIDE (as Se)-air 10 hour time-weighted average 0.05 ppm NIOSH* DHHS #92-100,1992


STATUS IN FEDERAL AGENCIES:

ORGANIZATION
REFERENCE
N/R


REFERENCES:

CODEN
REFERENCE
ATXKA8 Archiv fuer Toxikologie. (Berlin, Fed. Rep. Ger.) V.15-31, 1954-74. For publisher information, see ARTODN.
CFRGBR Code of Federal Regulations. (U.S. Government Printing Office, Supt. of Documents, Washington, DC 20402)
DTLVS* The Threshold Limit Values (TLVs) and Biological Exposure Indices (BEIs) booklet issues by American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), Cincinnati, OH, 1996
NIOSH* National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Reports and Memoranda.
VCVN5* "Vrednie chemichescie veshestva. Neorganicheskie soedinenia elementov V-VII groopp" (Hazardous substances. Inornanic substances containing V-VII group elements), Bandman A.L. et al., Chimia, 1989.

Used as a gaseous electric insulator

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