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EC number: 620-540-6 | CAS number: 1218787-32-6
- Life Cycle description
- Uses advised against
- Endpoint summary
- Appearance / physical state / colour
- Melting point / freezing point
- Boiling point
- Density
- Particle size distribution (Granulometry)
- Vapour pressure
- Partition coefficient
- Water solubility
- Solubility in organic solvents / fat solubility
- Surface tension
- Flash point
- Auto flammability
- Flammability
- Explosiveness
- Oxidising properties
- Oxidation reduction potential
- Stability in organic solvents and identity of relevant degradation products
- Storage stability and reactivity towards container material
- Stability: thermal, sunlight, metals
- pH
- Dissociation constant
- Viscosity
- Additional physico-chemical information
- Additional physico-chemical properties of nanomaterials
- Nanomaterial agglomeration / aggregation
- Nanomaterial crystalline phase
- Nanomaterial crystallite and grain size
- Nanomaterial aspect ratio / shape
- Nanomaterial specific surface area
- Nanomaterial Zeta potential
- Nanomaterial surface chemistry
- Nanomaterial dustiness
- Nanomaterial porosity
- Nanomaterial pour density
- Nanomaterial photocatalytic activity
- Nanomaterial radical formation potential
- Nanomaterial catalytic activity
- Endpoint summary
- Stability
- Biodegradation
- Bioaccumulation
- Transport and distribution
- Environmental data
- Additional information on environmental fate and behaviour
- Ecotoxicological Summary
- Aquatic toxicity
- Endpoint summary
- Short-term toxicity to fish
- Long-term toxicity to fish
- Short-term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates
- Long-term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates
- Toxicity to aquatic algae and cyanobacteria
- Toxicity to aquatic plants other than algae
- Toxicity to microorganisms
- Endocrine disrupter testing in aquatic vertebrates – in vivo
- Toxicity to other aquatic organisms
- Sediment toxicity
- Terrestrial toxicity
- Biological effects monitoring
- Biotransformation and kinetics
- Additional ecotoxological information
- Toxicological Summary
- Toxicokinetics, metabolism and distribution
- Acute Toxicity
- Irritation / corrosion
- Sensitisation
- Repeated dose toxicity
- Genetic toxicity
- Carcinogenicity
- Toxicity to reproduction
- Specific investigations
- Exposure related observations in humans
- Toxic effects on livestock and pets
- Additional toxicological data
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Biodegradation in soil
Administrative data
Link to relevant study record(s)
Description of key information
Based on the available studies on biodegradation, the substances are estimated to be readily biodegradable. The 10-days-window criterion should not be evaluated for a UVCB thus there is no requirement for performing a soil biodegradation test (Annex IX. 9.2.1.3). No simulation tests for degradation rates under environmental conditions are available for primary fatty amine ethoxylates but for a very similar substance (hexadecyl amine) and these results will be used for read-across to primary fatty amine ethoxylates (2EO). For soil and aerobic sediment this is a half-life value of 17 days at 12 °C.
Key value for chemical safety assessment
- Half-life in soil:
- 17 d
- at the temperature of:
- 12 °C
Additional information
Default half-life’s
For the derivation of the default half-life’s the bioavailability is taken into account via the sorption properties of the substance. This is realistic for soluble non-toxic substances. For poorly soluble/strongly sorbing substances however, the degradation rate in a standard ready test is limited by the dissolution rate and in many cases not 60% degradation is achieved within 28 days but in a slightly longer time frame. Such a substance is in fact completely degraded to CO2and H2O and thus completely biodegradable. The bioavailable fraction is readily biodegradable but the due to the stringency of the test setup the substance this cannot be observed.
The Kpsoil was determined as 4526 L/kg. The suggested maximum half-life for a readily degradable substance with a Kpsoil in the range >1000 and < 10000 L/kg is 3000 days for soil (at 12 ºC). These values are considered as extremely conservative but in the absence of measured data can be used in the exposure assessment as a worst-case. The half-life of the bioavailable fraction of primary fatty amine ethoxylates in the water phase of soils is expected to be in the order of a few days, which is based on experiments with dialkyldimethylammonium salts (van Ginkel et al, 2003).
Read across from primary alkyl amines
For hexadecylamine[1-14C] a substance which isvery similar to 2,2'-(C12-18 evennumbered alkyl imino) diethanol (CAS no 71786-60-2) there is an OECD 307 aerobic soil transformation study available and the results of this study will be used for read across to the primary alkyl amine ethoxylates for both the soil and sediment compartment. Although this C16 amine is strongly sorbing to soil (median Kp soil of 3875 L/kg at lowest measured concentration) the following half-life’s at 20 °C were determined for three soils: Soil 1 t1/2 = 9.0 d; Soil 2 t1/2 = 8.1 d; Soil 3 t1/2 = 8.9 d.
The median Half-life of 8.9 d at 20 °C corresponds to a median Half-life of 16.9 d at an environmental temperature of 12 °C (see REACH Guidance). This study demonstrates that 1-Hexadecanamine (C16 amine) is rapidly degraded in various soils and that the assumption of low degradation rates for strongly sorbing substances could be unjustified.
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