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:
   Staveley, L.A.K.; Jeffes, J.H.E.; Moy, J.A.E., Trans. Faraday Soc. 1943, 39, 5-13.

 Variables:
   Temperature = 24-71 °C

 Prepared By:
   A. Maczynski and Z. Maczynska

 Experimental Data:   (Notes on the Nomenclature)
  
Solubility of water in benzene
t/°Cg2/100 g solutiong2/100 g solution (compiler)103 * Mole Fraction x2 (compiler)
24.70.6850.06852.96
41.41.2130.12125.23
44.01.2960.12945.88
50.41.6190.16166.97
58.22.0730.20698.91
58.52.1900.21859.41
71.02.9760.296712.74
 Method/Apparatus/Procedure:
   About 50 cm3 of (1) was introduced into a clean dry glass tube about 3.5 cm in diameter with a narrow inlet, a small amount of (2) was added from a weighted pipette, and the tube at once sealed off. It was then agitated at a sufficently high temperature until all (2) had gone into solution, placed in a bath of water, and allowed to cool slowly. The temperature at which (1) was saturated with respect to (2) was taken to be that at which opalescence appeared.

 Source and Purity of Materials:
   (1) source not specified; dried over sodium wire; distilled from sodium.
   (2) not specified.

 Estimated Errors:

   Temperature: ± 1.5 K