What is the solvent white spirit made from? Is it methanol, ethanol or neither?
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White spirit, also known as Stoddard solvent is a paraffin-derived clear, transparent liquid which is a common organic solvent used in painting and decorating.\n\nIt is a mixture of saturated aliphatic and alicyclic C7 to C12 hydrocarbons with a maximum content of 25% of C7 to C12 alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons.\n\nWhite spirit is used as an extraction solvent, as a cleaning solvent, as a degreasing solvent and as a solvent in aerosols, paints, wood preservatives, lacquers, varnishes, and asphalt products. In western Europe about 60% of the total white spirit consumption is used in paints, lacquers and varnishes. White spirit is the most widely used solvent in the paint industry.\n\nThree different types and three different grades of white spirit exist. The type refers to whether the solvent has been subjected to hydrodesulfurization (removal of sulfur) alone (type 1), solvent extraction (type 2) or hydrogenation (type 3). Each type comprises three different grades: low flash grade, regular grade, and high flash grade. The grade is determined by the crude oil used as the starting material and the conditions of distillation.
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Yup, non-polar solvents.  If acetone, alkanes, or toluene don't work, then go with petroleum ether(hist. ligroin) that dissolves alot of things.
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The word is "extract".\n\nAlcohol containing products such as wine, champagne, whiskey, beer etc are made from food products having a lot of carbohydrates like rice, wheat, barley etc. What differs in the wine, whiskey etc. is the amount of alcohol or more precisely Ethanol or C2H5OH, it is obtained on fermentation which breaks up the long starch chains into simpler ethanol molecules.\n\nFermentation is an oxidation reaction, if allowed to continue, C2H5OH is oxidised to Acetic or Ethanoic acid CH3COOH whose diluted form is vinegar.
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That's called earthshine. Moonshine is homemade liquor.
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It looks like an alcohol.  An alcohol has the structure R-O-H, where R is any alkyl (carbon and hydrogen) group.
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Properties of methanol\n1. Methanol is a colourless liquid at room temperature. \n2. Methanol has a slight fruity odour. \n3. The boiling point of methanol is 64.5°C. \n4. Methanol is completely miscible in water. \n5. The density of methanol is less than water. \n6. Methanol is a neutral solution and shows negative results for all acid tests. \n7. Methanol is poisonous and if ingested can cause blindness. \n8. Methanol is very flammable and burns with a pale blue flame. It forms carbon dioxide and water on complete oxidation or combustion. \n9. Methanol reacts with Na to give off hydrogen gas. \n10. Methanol reacts with ethanoic acid to give methyl ethanoate which is an ester.
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Simple:\n\nEthanol is polar (Formula is CH3CH2OH) the lst OH group make the diference.. because of extensive "hydrogenbonding" property it behaves like polar solvent and  polar solvents dissolves in polar media such as water.\n\nWhere as Heptanol, thoug it is having OH group (CH2(CH2)5-CH2-OH), because of long aliphatic chain, the "Hydrogen bonds" formed by these molecule are weak and rare.\n\nso it behaves as non-polar compare to water\nso it cant dissolve Ethanol
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"what element(s) and what bond(s) make water a universal solvent?"
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The answer is 2.5 gallons of ethanol.  Check out the link.
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SD Alcohol 40, Hydrofluorocarbon 152A, Octylacryamide/Acrylates/Butylaminoethyl
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methanol (rubbing alcohol);\n\none carbon, attached to one oxygen, with hydrogen everywhere else\n\nethanol (drinking alcohol);\n\ntwo carbons attached, one oxygen, with hydrogen everywhere else\n\nethyl ketone (very bad variation on ethanol, which is naturally occuring)\n\ntwo carbons attached, an oxygen attached by double bond, and hydrogen (one less hydrogen) everywhere else
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You'd need 4 L of dehydrated alcohol and 1 L of water in order to get a 80% solution. Getting a dry solution of ethanol would be a challenge, though, so I would expect it to be closer to 75-77% in actuality (but theoretically 80)
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Vodka has a proof number which is 2 times the % of alcohol. Solvent is the liquid in greater amount. Solute is the one in lesser amount. So if the vodka is 80 proof, it is 40% alcohol, and the alcohol is the solute, and water the solvent.
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Couldn't you evaporate the solvent? I think it's water or ethanol.
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the production of alcohol is an anoxic reaction, if oxygen is present alcohol isn't produced. This is usually achieved by putting the fermentation mixture in a sealed flask with a water stopper in the top, this allows the escape of CO2 produced in the fermentation but doesn't allow O2 in the air to dissolve in the water
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I understand that the compound in question is soluble in both pet. ether and ethanol. The reason why pet. ether is preferred must be to do with the volatility of pet. ether. \n\nYou can easily evaporate pet. ether, which is why this is preferred over ethanol. \n\nThanks.
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First, distill off the alcohol. With ethanol, the best you can get is 95% purity, the remaining 5% is water. There are cheap zeolites and hygroscopic salts such as CaCl2 or NaOH available which can further reduce the amount of water. If you are still not happy, you can get absolute alcohols by using magnesium. And magnesium ribbons or turnings are relatively cheap, too. Place (50-100 g) magnesium in a flask, put some amount of alcohol just to cover the magnesium. Leave for a few hours until you see white magnesium alkoxide being formed on the surface of the metal. Caution: exothermic reaction. Use the tallest distillation column you can find. Do not stir the mixture. Just leave it there. When you have now a lot of magnesium alkoxide you can add more alcohol (up to 2 liters). The alkoxide will destroy any water in the alcohol and you now can distill off your absolute alcohols. For methanol and ethanol, formation of the alkoxide takes only a few hours. For other alcohols, you might need to activate the magnesium by adding some solid iodine and heating to activate the magnesium. Don't distill to dryness. The remaining alkoxide reacts violently with water. Use alcohol-water mixture when disposing them. Sounds fun, doesn't it? =)