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What is tars?
« on: October 10, 2006, 05:48:32 PM »
What is tars? And where do it come from? How do we avoid loosing substrate or product to tars?  ???
I have experienced it a lot while extracting arene methyl ethers.
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Fragment to fragment clings, and thus they grow
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Re: What is tars?
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2006, 10:11:05 PM »
Tars are a group of viscous liquid hydrocarbons.  They come from heavier fractions of petroleum, similar fossil deposits, I believe certain decay processes and can be produced upon destructional distillation of woods and coal.
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Re: What is tars?
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2006, 04:16:28 AM »
I dont mean that tar-thing you get out of the roots of pinetrees. But that ugly lumps of black solids I always get in the seperator funnel when I extract something. Is that a radical reaction of some sort?
No single thing abides, but all things flow.
Fragment to fragment clings, and thus they grow
Until we know and name them.
Then by degrees they change and are no more
The things we know.
- Titus Lucretius Carus

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