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Can a gas act as a nonpolar solvent?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Supercritical carbon dioxide is used as a non polar solvent to extract caffeine from coffee beens. Supercritical gases are not quite gases and not quite liquids but sort of in between.

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