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Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality: Guideline Technical Document - Dichloromethane - Long Description 1

The skin permeability coefficient for dichloromethane is 0.119 centimetres per hour. This value is calculated by subtracting the product of 0.0104 and 84.93 (the molecular weight of dichloromethane) from -0.812, then adding the product of 0.616 and 1.25 (the log Kow of dichloromethane).

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