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Offline kimi

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Salt water effect on Diethyl Ether
« on: August 30, 2007, 12:30:44 PM »
Hi,

i came across a topic relating the influence of salt water on various compounds..unfortunately it was incomplete.

i want to ask if anybody has an idea if the boiling point of Diethyl Ether (35C) can be raised to 45-48C by mixing with salt?

help will be greatly appreciated ;)

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Re: Salt water effect on Diethyl Ether
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2007, 02:29:13 PM »
I don't think table salt would dissolve in diethyl ether.

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Re: Salt water effect on Diethyl Ether
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2007, 04:21:06 PM »
NaCl is ionic with now abbility of h- bonding
where as C2H5OC2H5 is organic and can react mainly through the electron pairs of oxygen...
there is no matching between the 2 species....
i don't think they'll react...

it seems you want to compare the species to adding salt to water to increase the MP but here the 2 components form a solution
in your example they are a mixture
earth is larger than a molecule

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