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Offline şebnem

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what's the structure of petroleum ether? or what does it contain??
« on: March 11, 2010, 02:17:55 PM »
 I've read "it is a mixture of alkanes (pentane, hexane, heptane)"
Is it true? or ...
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Re: what's the structure of petroleum ether? or what does it contain??
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2010, 03:24:51 PM »
It is true. It's mostly pentane, but other low boiling alkanes are often present.
It comes from the distillation of petroleum. Actually, you can buy different fractions of pet. ether too. I never did understand why it's got "ether" in the name when there's definitely no ethers in there.
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Re: what's the structure of petroleum ether? or what does it contain??
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2010, 06:55:12 PM »
thank you so much:)
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