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Offline Syentethai

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Styrene Monomer
« on: May 15, 2008, 03:05:46 PM »
So someone in my lab allowed styrene monomer to harden in a flask, and now we can't get the glass stopper out. We've tried using a micropipet to add toluene to dissolve it, but it doesn't seem to be working. Any ideas?

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Re: Styrene Monomer
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2008, 04:08:20 PM »
Toluene will dissolve polystyrene, just use a lot and keep at it. Let it sit in a toluene bath overnight in a fume hood if need be.
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Re: Styrene Monomer
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2008, 04:00:47 AM »
Yea  -  let it soak in for for as long as it takes  -  even a a couple of days to let the solvent seep right into the gaps.
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Re: Styrene Monomer
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2008, 02:07:14 PM »
styrene monomer is a strong organic polymer of repeating units any phenol based material at exessive amount will readily dissolve toluene..
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Re: Styrene Monomer
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2008, 05:31:26 PM »
styrene monomer is a strong organic polymer of repeating units any phenol based material at exessive amount will readily dissolve toluene..
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Re: Styrene Monomer
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2008, 12:09:01 PM »
erratum:
styrene monomer is a strong organic polymer of repeating units any phenol based material at exessive amount will readily dissolve toluene..
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the last word should be organic polymer of repeating units like monomer....
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Re: Styrene Monomer
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2008, 06:09:30 AM »
erratum:
styrene monomer is a strong organic polymer of repeating units any phenol based material at exessive amount will readily dissolve toluene..
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the last word should be organic polymer of repeating units like monomer....

No!
Styrene is a monomer.
Polystyrene is an organic polymer with repeating units.
Some polymers with phenyl groups will dissolve in toluene

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Re: Styrene Monomer
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2008, 09:28:10 AM »
erratum again...
a repeating monomer unit....
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Re: Styrene Monomer
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2008, 08:23:36 PM »
You've probably gotten the stopper free by now, but you could have also heated the flask up to ~200 degC or so such that the viscosity of the polymer was more manageable.

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