Trichlorethylene (TCE) yakajeka, isina ruvara, isingabatike (pakamuri tembiricha) yakagadzikana ine muchetura mvura ine chloroform-yakafanana kunhuhwirira (ATSDR, 2011). Inonyungudika zvishoma mumvura, inonyungudika mumagirizi uye zvinonyungudutsa zvakajairika, uye inovira pa87°C (190 F).
Pakusangana nemhepo, inoora zvishoma nezvishoma uye inoita phosgene, hydrogen chloride, uye dichloroacetyl chloride. Trichlorethylene kana yasangana nemvura inoita ngura uye inoita dichloroacetic acid uye hydrochloric acid. Inonyungudika mumethanol, diethyl ether, uye acetone.
Trichlorethylene inozivikanwawo se trichloroethene, acetylene trichloride, 1-chloro-2,2- dichlorethylene, uye ethylene trichloride, uye inowanzopfupikiswa kuTRI. Iyo inoputika, chlorinated organic hydrocarbon iyo inoshandiswa zvakanyanya kudzikisa simbi uye sehydrofluorocarbon (HFC-134a) yepakati (ATSDR, 2013). Inoshandiswawo mune zvinonamira, pendi-kubvisa maumbirwo, pendi, lacquers, uye varnishes. Mumakore ekuma1930, TCE yakaunzwa kuti ishandiswe mukucheneswa kwakaoma, asi tsika iyi yakanyanya kuregwa muma1950 apo TCE yakatsiviwa netetrachlorethylene (PCE). Iyo ine akati wandei mamwe ekare anoshandiswa muzvizora, zvinodhaka, chikafu, uye mishonga yezvipembenene (US EPA, 2011). Icho chinosvibisa kwezvakatipoteredza chakaonekwa mumhepo, pasi pemvura, pamusoro pemvura, uye ivhu