IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database
NIST Standard Reference Database 106

Glass Ball as Bullet Solubility System: Benzene with Water
Components:
   (1) Water; H2O; [7732-18-5]  NIST Chemistry WebBook for detail
   (2) Benzene; C6H6; [71-43-2]  NIST Chemistry WebBook for detail
Original Measurements:
   Hoegfeldt, E.; Bolander, B., Ark. Kemi 1964, 21, 161-86.

 Variables:
   Temperature = One temperature: 25 °C

 Prepared By:
   A. Maczynski and Z. Maczynska

 Experimental Remarks:
   The solubility of water in benzene was reported to be 0.032 mol (2) dm-3 sln at 25 °C.
The corresponding mass percent and mol fraction, x2, calculated by the compilers are 0.066 g(2)/100 g sln and 2.9 x 10-3. The assumption that 1 dm3 sln = 874 g sln was used in the calculation.

 Experimental Data:   (Notes on the Nomenclature)
   Method/Apparatus/Procedure:
   The water determination was carried out according to Johansson's modification of the Karl Fischer titration in ref 1, 2.

 Source and Purity of Materials:
   (1) source not specified, 0.04% of toluene; purity 99.6%; used as received.
   (2) not specified.

 Estimated Errors:
   Solubility: ± 0.001 mol(2) dm-3 sln (type of error not specified)
   Temperature: ± 0.3 K

 References:
   1Hardy, C.J.; Greenfield, B.F.; Scargill, D. J. Chem. So. 1961, 90.
   2Johansson, A. Sv. Papperstidn. 1947, 11B, 124.