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xylene confirmation
honey_badger:
swim has a product called xylene, on the front.
but looking at the bottom, its says contains hydrocarbons, xylene, and benzene.
swim knows that xylenes refers to a group of 3 benzene derivatives which encompasses ortho-, meta-, and para- isomers of dimethyl benzene,
but benzene?
has swim got 100% xylene?, or good enough for a water less acid base and post reaction work up of e/i/rp? as it says contains hydrocarbons, xylene, benzene (like that with the comma)
if not will this fuck up as my non polar solvent?
:P
Lestat:
Dude, benzene is nasty carcinogenic plagueified shit, it is however, still non polar.
abolt:
Go ahead and use it Jemma. ;)
Benzene is in petrol, also, and anyone is allowed to handle that stuff..
fogged:
Dude, benzene is nasty carcinogenic plagueified shit, it is however, still non polar.
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And despite this, you're more than happy to contemplate playing with carbon tetrachloride or worse, flourine gas, phosphines, and so forth... not a flame, but you should perhaps have a think about relative risks... Benzene is perfectly safe if handled with moderate care in a decent fume hood.
As to the original question, benzene and xylene are likely interchangeable anyway, so a combination of the two, for this purpose, shouldnt cause a problem that I can see... "hydrocarbons" would likely mean alkanes that boil at roughly the same range as benzene or xylene, which just means it hasn't been thoroughly purified... however, for an extraction it should be fine. All of the three are non polar, so it should be all good. If you're seriously worried, you can always try a small scale work up to be certain.
Organikum:
You have technical xylene with the usual impurities from the production process. All are nonpolar and so this product is ok for use as solvent.
No more health risk than with any other aromatic hydrocarbons, gasoline is much more toxic, with or without benzene.
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