Arcuritech
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"Mineral spirits"
I have a can of liquid intended for use as paint thinner rather unhelpfuly labeled "oderless mineral spirits". I desolved a small amount of I2 in it
forming a very purple solution which resembled permanganate in water. Becoming more curious, I scaned the back label and found that it contained
petrolium distilates, so my question is this:
Can it be safely assumed that because it is nonpolar (the purple I2 soln.) and the label says petroliom distilates, it is mostly CxH2x+2 where x is
somewhere around 10?
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What you have is probably as nonpolar as it gets. Does the label say anything about the boiling range and how it has been treated (desulfurization,
hydrogenation etc.)? Aromatics content?
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The label says nothing more than what i posted, and nothing about how it was prosessed. It apperes relitively high boiling and non-volatile, and I'm
not sure about the aromatics or sulfur content. Do you know any simple tests for that? Perhaps Burn it and look for a SO2 smell?
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Type (Name of Product)(maker of product)(msds)(pdf) into google and see if it doesn't pull up the info on your product.
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