Description
Ethanol Absolute Alcohol 99,9% is used as a solvent, in homeopathy extraction of active herbal ingredients, manufacture of perfumes and other products.
- Also used In the manufacture of pharmaceutical and personal care products such as cosmetics, astringents.
- As a biofuel, bioethanol, blended with gasoline to operate automobiles.
- It also suitable for multi-purpose use at homes, work places and schools, science laboratories, colleges and universities
Properties
| grade | for gradient elution |
| vapor density | 1.59 (vs air) |
| vapor pressure | 44.6 mmHg ( 20 °C) |
| grade | absolute |
| assay | 99.9% |
| autoignition temp. | 683 °F |
| expl. lim. | 19 %, 60 °F |
| impurities | ≤0.0005% free alkali (as NH3) |
| ≤0.001% free acid (as CH3COOH) | |
| ≤0.001% non-volatile matter | |
| ≤0.1% water (Karl Fischer) | |
| ≤1 ppb fluorescence (quinine) 254 nm | |
| ≤1 ppb fluorescence (quinine) 365 nm | |
| transmittance | 210 nm, ≥25% |
| 225 nm, ≥65% | |
| 240 nm, ≥85% | |
| 260 nm, ≥98% | |
| refractive index | n20/D 1.3600 (lit.) |
| bp | 78 °C (lit.) |
| mp | −114 °C (lit.) |
| density | 0.789 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.) |
| HPLC-gradient | ≤2 mAU at 254 nm |
| ≤5 mAU at 235 nm | |
| suitability | passes test for IR spectroscopy |
| passes test for suitability for UV spectroscopy | |
| SMILES string | CCO |
| InChI | 1S/C2H6O/c1-2-3/h3H,2H2,1 |
| InChI key | LFQSCWFLJHTTHZ-UHFFFAOYSA |
