IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database
NIST Standard Reference Database 106


Glass Ball as Bullet Solubility System: Ethylbenzene with Water

Components:
   (1) Water; H2O; [7732-18-5]  NIST Chemistry WebBook for detail
   (2) Ethylbenzene; C8H10; [100-41-4]  NIST Chemistry WebBook for detail

Original Measurements:
   Morrison, T.J.; Billett, F., J. Chem. Soc. 1952, 3819-22.

Variables:
   Temperature = 25 °C

Prepared By:
   A. Maczynski

Experimental Remarks:

   The solubility of ethylbenzene in water at 25°C was reported to be 0.00155 mol(1)/1000 g(2).

The corresponding mass percent and mole fraction, x1, calculated by compilers are 0.0165 g(1)/100 g sln and x1 = 2.8 × 10–5.

Experimental Data:   (Notes on the Nomenclature)
   Method/Apparatus/Procedure:
   After an excess of (1) had been shaken with about 1 dm3 of (2) for about a week, a known volume of saturated solution was made slightly alkaline, and a stream of pure air passed through to drive off the (1). After passage through a silica tube packed with cupric oxide and heated to redness, the (2) was removed by concentrated sulfuric acid and calcium chloride and the carbon dioxide absorbed and weighed in soda-asbestos. The precautions usual in organic combustions were taken.

Source and Purity of Materials:
   (1) source not specified; purest obtainable material; distilled; purity not specified.
   (2) not specified.

Estimated Errors:
   Solubility: ± 1% (mean of large numbers of determinations)
   Temperature: ± 0.1°C