IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database
NIST Standard Reference Database 106

Glass Ball as Bullet Solubility System: Nitroethane with Decane
Components:
   (1) Decane; C10H22; [124-18-5]  NIST Chemistry WebBook for detail
   (2) Nitroethane; C2H5NO2; [79-24-3]  NIST Chemistry WebBook for detail
Original Measurements:
   Clever, H.L.; Pirkle, Q.R. Jr.; Allen, B.J. Jr.; Derrick, M.E., J. Chem. Eng. Data 17, 31-4 (1972).

 Variables:
   Temperature = 331 K

 Prepared By:
   V. P. Sazonov and N. I. Lisov

 Experimental Remarks:
   Solubility of nitroethane (1) in decane (2) at 58.0 °C (331.2 K) was reported to be x1 = 0.730 (100 w1 = 58.8, compilers).

 Experimental Data:   (Notes on the Nomenclature)
   Method/Apparatus/Procedure:
   The synthetic method was used. Solution of (1) and (2) were prepared by mass from glass syringes in 13 mm×100 mm Kimax screw cap culture tubes and sealed with a Teflon-faced rubber liner. Tubes were immersed in a 3 L stirred water bath. Two cloud point observations were made visually; one at relatively fast cooling rate, and the second at a slow cooling rate to more precisely determines cloud point temperature.

 Source and Purity of Materials:
   (1) Matheson, Coleman and Bell; practical grade; distilled at 57°C/12.9 kPa.
   (2) Phillips; purity 99 mol %.

 Estimated Errors:

   Temperature: ±0.1 K.