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What is petrolium ether?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Petroleum ether is a mixture of volatile hydrocarbons. Most of the time when it's called for in an experiment it's simply being used as a solvent; pentane or hexane generally work just as well.

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16y ago

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