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Dimethylamine is a colorless flammable gas at room temperature. It has a pungent, fishy, or ammonia-like odor at room temperature and is shipped and marketed in compressed liquid form. It is very soluble in water and soluble in alcohol and ether. It is incompatible with oxidizing materials, acrylaldehyde, fluorine, maleic anhydride, chlorine, or mercury. Dimethylamine is a precursor to several industrially important compounds.
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Dimethylamine is used in the manufacture of N-methylformamide and N-methylacetamide. It is a precursor to several industrially important compounds. For instance, it is used in the manufacture of several products, for example, for the vulcanization process of rubber, as detergent soaps, in leather tanning, in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, and also for cellulose acetate rayon treatment. Dimethylamine is commercially sold as a compressed liquid in tubes or as a 33% aqueous solution.