Clear and colorless liquid, with a pungent odor, miscible withwater, ethanol, glycerin and aether but not with carbon bisulfide.Specific gravity: 1.04928; melting point: 16.665±0.002; boilingpoint: 117.9; viscosity: 1.22 centipois (20); flash point: 43(closed cup); refractive index: 1.3715; burning point: 465. Frozeninto ice at a temperature of less than16.

Applications: As one of most important organic raw materials, itis mainly used in such products as Vinyl acetate, acetic anhydride,diketene, acetate ester, acetate, acetate fiber and chloroacticacid etc. It is an important raw material for synthesized fiber,gooey, medicines, pesticides and dyes, and also a good organicsolvent. It is widely applied in such industries as of plastics,rubbers and printing etc. Manufacture of acetic anhydride, vinylacetate; Widely usedinsolvents, dyes, celluloseacetate,pharmaceuticals, in-socticides, textile printing, photographic filmand coagulating rubber latec.