Methylamine, also known as aminomethane, is a colorless, highly flammable, corrosive gas with strong odor like ammonia in high concentrations. It is harmful when inhaled and irritates skin and respiratory system. In low concentrations the odor of methylamines is often described as fishy since the odor of raw fish comes from amines. Despite this foul reputation, the amines are essential to life as constituents of amino acids. They occur in drugs and vitamins, and are essential starting materials for many synthetic processes and organic synthesis. It is used mainly as an intermediate in organic synthesis but also as an intermediate for water gel explosives, accelerators, pharmaceuticals, insecticides, surface active agents, fungicides, and various chemical finished products such as: N-methylpyrrolidine and methylalkanolamines. It is also used during production in many industries such as: in tanning, as a component of photographic developers and paint removers, as a fuel additive, in the production of dyes, in treatment of cellulose acetate rayon and as a polymerization inhibitor and a rocket propellant.
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