Why is olive oil acidic? Why is acetone the best solvent for lipids? What is the purpose of washing the solid product with ethanol? Explain your reasoning. Why is dicinnamalacetone soluble in toluene and not ethanol? Why does ethanol have a pH of 6?
Is I2 more likely to be soluble in water or carbon tetrachloride? Explain. Why do water and cyclohexane form two layers when mixed? Why is dicinnamalacetone soluble in toluene and not ethanol? Why is water considered a universal solvent? Explain why CH_3OH is miscible in water whereas CH...
Why is acetone the best solvent for lipids? Explain why some distillate in the dehydration of 3,3-dimethyl-2-butanol was cloudy. Describe lipids. Why is 1-propanol soluble in water but ethanethiol and chloroethane are not? Explain how an oil/water emulsion can be made m...
Why is it dangerous to heat a compound in a distilling assembly that has no opening to the atmosphere? Ammonia, H2N-H, has pKa=36 and acetone has pKa=19. Will the given reaction take place? Explain. Explain why the vapor pressure of 4-chlorobenzaldehyde is greater than that of alcohol....
Why is CH_3CH_2OH a better solvent than H_2O? Why do we use a mixture instead of only ether or only hexanes in a Wittig reaction? Why is dicinnamalacetone soluble in toluene and not ethanol? Speculate on why ethyl alcohol is used as an antidote for methyl al...
Explain why benzophenone is more soluble in acetate than in water. In the standardization of NaOH, why can the flasks you put your samples of acid into be wet? Develop a hypothesis that could explain why a soap created from the acid CH3CH2CH2CH2CO...
Explain why diester A is now often used as a plasticizer in place of dibutyl phthalate. Dibutyl phthalate: Dibutyl phthalate is type of compound that is used widley in form of a plasticiser. The formula of the given compound is composed of sixteen atoms of carbon an...
Explain why soaps are more water-soluble than fatty acids are. Why wash water in experiment limiting reagent has to be kept warm at 80^oC-90^oC. Explain why? Why does a plastic bag not dissolve in acetone while styrofoam does dissolve? Why are cast iron and steel used a lot more...
It can be considered as the property of matter (solid, liquid along with gas). Answer and Explanation: Dichloromethane will be more soluble in water as compared to carbon tetrachloride because carbon tetrachloride is a non-polar molecule whereas......
Why would acetone and water not be a suitable choice of two solvents to use in a liquid-liquid extraction? Explain why some substances are soluble in water and some are not? Respond to the statement: "like dissolves like". Why does benzoyl chloride react pref...