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Offline CrimpJiggler

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Tricks for removing surfactants: cetyl (aka palmityl) alcohol and stearyl alcoho
« on: November 07, 2011, 06:53:53 PM »
Are there any tricks for extracting a surfactant from non surfactant compounds in a solution?
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Re: Tricks for removing surfactants
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2011, 07:17:12 PM »
Surfactants are usually very non-polar. You might be able to do it by organic solvent extraction.
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Re: Tricks for removing surfactants
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2011, 08:23:36 PM »
The particular surfactant I wanna extract is a fatty alcohol which I'm guessing is very non polar. In this particular situation, this will work, thanks.
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Re: Tricks for removing surfactants
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2011, 09:44:01 PM »
What is the name of the alcohol?
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Re: Tricks for removing surfactants
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2011, 03:06:08 PM »
There are actually 2 of them present, cetyl (aka palmityl) alcohol and stearyl alcohol.
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