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96480

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GBL as a solvent
« on: March 13, 2003, 12:00:00 AM »
In this story I am writing I wish to be as real to life as possible-My question, if someone had GBL stored in a beaker and wished to stopper the beaker using a cork, would the gbl if it was in contact with the cork dissolve, deteriorate or damage the cork so as to break the seal??


littlejasebee

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Why a beaker ?
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2003, 12:08:00 AM »

What SWIM would do is not to store it in a beaker but to store it in a PET plastics bottle with a lid .Why do you want to store it in a beaker with a cork   ? .

Littlejase      :)      .


Rhodium

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You should rather use a proper bottle with a...
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2003, 12:12:00 AM »
You should rather use a proper bottle with a chemical-resistant cap. PET is a polyester plastic which is slowly dissolved by GBL.

96480

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Mistated question
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2003, 12:25:00 AM »
I am trying to determine if gbl affects simple materials such as cork for a hypothtical reason, thus really being able to use the correct materials for storage are not the issue. As we are all cunducting hypothetical exiperiments here anyways ;) --you guys have been very polite which I apperciate being so unknowlegable about such advanced items as you guys tackel in your forums.
   The real question being would my theory about using the cork be acceptable for a short period such as 7 days?

littlejasebee

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Well thats what SWIM sould
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2003, 12:27:00 AM »

Sorry Rhodium your right thats what SWIM sould do and if you don't have a proper bottle with a  chemical-resistant cap then Swim would put it in a PET plastics bottle . But not a breaker with a cork  .

Littlejase      :)      .


urushibara

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polyester?
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2003, 09:52:00 AM »
pardon my ignorance, but is polyethylene a polyester? that doesn't sound right to me. _P_oly_ET_hylene note the upper case bits. polyethylene is okay with alcohols but is slightly damaged by chlorinated solvents and aliphatics, and a lot damaged by ketones and aromatics. afaik.

worth looking at the info about materials/solvents compatibility that is either linked from here or rhodium. some materials just turn to goop with some solvents. like acetone and nylon... man.


raffike

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Polyethylene isn't an polyester,it's structure
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2003, 12:06:00 PM »
Polyethylene isn't an polyester,it's structure goes like
-CH2-CH2-CH2-


urushibara

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'ene' implies a double bond
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2003, 08:07:00 PM »
'ene' implies a double bond

what you drew would be called a linear alkane.

ethylene looks like this:


    H
    |
H-C=C-H
  |
  H

thus polyethylene would look like this:



    H   H   H   H
    |   |   |   |
H-C=C-C=C-C=C-C=C-H
  |   |   |   | 
  H   H   H   H 


though probably longer usually.

that doesn't come out with a monospaced font for me, is that how it is for everyone else?

how about this:

CH2=CH1-CH1=CH1-CH1=CH1-CH1=CH2

polyester would have to have oxygens and OH's in it just like an ester does.

edit: pardon me, I put too many hydrogens in previously, I've corrected this now. thanks badbody




96480

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OK but how about Cork??
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2003, 04:01:00 AM »
Ok so its ok on plastics but how about cork???

Ziqquratu

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Normally you'd be right, urushibara.
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2003, 07:02:00 AM »
Normally you'd be right, urushibara.  "ene" does normally imply double bond.  In this case, however, ethylene is the monomer.  The pi-bond in one ethylene molecule breaks and connects to the next one, forming a sigma-bond between them, which causes the pi-bond in the second to break, which joins to... and so on.  The equation would be written:

x(H2C=CH2) --> ...-CH2-CH2-CH2-CH2-...

The name of a polymer like this tends to be written Poly-<insert name of monomer here>.  For example, Poly Vinyl Chloride:

x(H2C=CHCl) --> ...-CH2-CHCl-CH2-CHCl-...

Or even Poly Tetrafluoroethylene (Teflon):
x(CF2-CF2) --> ...-CF2-CF2-CF2-CF2-...

Does that make it clear?  I'd post a reaction mechanism (complete with curved arrows!) to make it clearer, but you can find them in an average text book, plus I have no idea of how to post pictures!

urushibara

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polyethylene=long chain linear aliphatic?
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2003, 08:18:00 AM »
so polyethylene is a similar chemical in structure to hexane or dodecane or something then?

Is the plastic in naptha bottles polypropylene or polycarbonate? or does that vary?


raffike

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Yeah,i wondered too...but look what this ...
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2003, 12:53:00 PM »
Yeah,i wondered too...but look what this document has to say about polyethylene

http://www.nrc.ca/irc/cbd/cbd154f.html



No double bonds...which made me wonder why it is called polyethylene...
Raf is no chemist by any means,i'll see what a chemist i know(swiraf's dad) has to say about that.


hypo

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eh...
« Reply #12 on: March 19, 2003, 12:57:00 PM »
> No double bonds...which made me wonder why it is called polyethylene...

because it's polymerised ethylene (duh!)

i'd guess that there's side links to a varied
degree, giving PEs with different properties...

raffike

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Why not polymethane?
« Reply #13 on: March 19, 2003, 01:34:00 PM »
Why not polymethane?


Rhodium

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Because it is made from ethene, not methane.
« Reply #14 on: March 20, 2003, 12:31:00 AM »
Because it is made from ethene, not methane.

96480

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Glad to help
« Reply #15 on: March 20, 2003, 10:19:00 AM »
;D Seriously, I am glad to see you guys battle it out over plastic, it actually has brought things into perspective, I am sorry to post on a group sooooooo far over my head--yes Im intelligent just not in chemistry, but as a favor to swim, if anyone wants to play and tell me what a solvent such as GBL would do to a inert organic material such as cork well, then maybee ill put up more posts for you guys to battle over ;) ---thanks, keep laughing, posting and smiling.

callen

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So ...I'm Stupid...
« Reply #16 on: March 22, 2003, 05:49:00 AM »

gabd

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You just drink it
« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2003, 05:15:00 PM »
for a hell of a good time!
Its used as a solvent for cleaning electronic circuits, but most people I think people like to drink it more then they like like do clean stuff with it!

hypo

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plastics...
« Reply #18 on: March 22, 2003, 05:26:00 PM »
> _P_oly_ET_hylene note the upper case bits.

not really.

PE = polyethylene
PET = Polyethylenterephthalat

(but apparently PET is used for all kind of polyesters)

96480

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swim knows what to do with it
« Reply #19 on: March 26, 2003, 02:47:00 AM »
swim wants to know what it will do to cork--not pet or polyester or hdpe, Im just curious about cork---anyone see a trend in my question ::) Please how does gbl affect cork ::) Im begging at this point.Or is it that none of you know ;) --ha, a challenge--I dare you to answer ;D