Carbon tetrachloride

Carbon tetrachloride (also known as tetrachloromethane by nerds, lazily abbreviated as "carbon tet") was a chemical that nobody came into agreement whether it is organic or inorganic. There is no need to write down its formula, look at the name. Despite having a name that sounds like JK Rowling would come up for a chemical, carbon tetrachloride really existed and it could be found everywhere prior to the 21st century. Carbon tetrachloride was formerly used in fire extinguishers, spot removers, fuel anti-knock agents, anaesthetics, fumigant formulations, cough syrups, lava lamps, shampoos, dewormers and computer laboratories. It was used by people who were too ashamed to use chloroform like a normal person. It looked and smelt like chloroform while having the same performance as chloroform.

Carbon tetrachloride was banned because people got bored of it. Also chemists realised that they could just huff chloroform.

Uses

There is almost nothing carbon tet was not used for. Prior to the 21st century, you could find carbon tetrachloride in anything.

Production

Carbon tetrachloride was produced a lot in the past. It was extracted from a plant named liverwort.

Dangers

Carbon tetrachloride is a very liver-hungry substance. It tends to eat the liver of anyone who gets any close to it. Even after being banned from existence, some carbon tetrachloride still remain (due to persistence) and has to be fed rat liver each hour. People in the past did not have livers thanks to carbon tetrachloride abuse and alcoholism.

Like with all other chemicals, the largest danger in using carbon tetrachloride was cancer. It was more cancerous than asbestos by multitudes. So many people got cancer from carbon tetrachloride that now scientists cannot tell who got cancer. It is hard to tell who got liver cancer from carbon tetrachloride because it ate everyone's livers and there were no livers left to do a biopsy on.