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US
/ˈhɛkseɪn/
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NOUN
- a colorless flammable liquid alkane derived from petroleum and used as a solvent
How To Use hexane In A Sentence
- It turns out that the reactivity of an alkyl hydrocarbon like butane, pentane, hexane, et. al. goes up with increasing molecular weight, primarily because there are more carbon groups. Taking Your Lumps
- The emissions involved elevated releases of cyclohexane, a material similar to gasoline used at the plant to make caprolactam-a raw material for nylon. The Augusta Chronicle
- Catalytic hydrogenation adds six hydrogen atoms to produce cyclohexane, a colorless liquid with the properties of an alkane.
- The article brief the origin of hexane and stress the method of industrial separation.
- Solvents permitted in the UK for extraction include acetone, hexane, ethyl acetate, ethyl alcohol, and carbon dioxide.
- INGENIO RIOPAILA Location: La Paila, Colombia Year: 1990 Scope of the job: "Turn key" project Name of project: Anhydrous ethanol plant using cyclohexane as entrainer Capacity: Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- The residue was redissolved in 0.5 ml of hexane and analysed by gas-liquid chromatography.
- Benzene from which every trace of thiophene has not been eliminated cannot be transformed into cyclohexane. Paul Sabatier - Nobel Lecture
- A physical and distillation method was applied to the separation of an isopropanol - cyclohexane andisopropanol liquids.
- Cornucopia, an organic industry watchdog, first investigated the use of these "novel" nutritional oils, derived from soil fungus and algae, in infant formula, because they are extracted using a neurotoxic chemical, hexane, which is explicitly banned in organic production. Foodconsumer.org