12cheman12 (Hive Bee)
07-15-04 07:35
No 519513
       Ethyl Acetate From Polish Remover     

Swims got some Non Acetone Polish Remover.

Ingredients are in order listed:
- Ethyl Acetate
- Demineralised Water
- Alcohol

Now Ethyl Acetate shouldnt be miscible with water but this solution is not layered. So either the alcohol is making it miscible or there is only trance amounts of water and alcohol.

Swim took some and added water and watched as the ethyl acetate moved to the top.
If swim decanted the ethyl acetate from the top do bees thinkg this would be clean enough because the alcohol would stay in the water, or would there still be alcohol in the ethyl acetate? 		 
 
 
 
    ApprenticeCook
(Hive Bee)
07-15-04 08:31
No 519517
       distillation     

Dont be lazy, distill it.

-AC
Its just my opinion, but no-one listens to me anyway, and rightly so... 		 
 
 
 
    Osmium
(Stoni's sexual toy)
07-15-04 09:09
No 519523
       You cannot separate ethyl acetate and ethanol...     

You cannot separate ethyl acetate and ethanol by distillation. But distill it anyway.
BUSH/CHENEY 2004! After all, it ain't my country!
www.american-buddha.com/addict.war.1.htm 		 
 
 
 
    12cheman12
(Hive Bee)
07-15-04 14:06
No 519552
       Excatly, that was my point, there is ethanol...     

Excatly, that was my point, there is ethanol in it.
Ethanol and ethyl acetate together.... you try distilling that, BP are bout the same yeah?

So is there any way of removing ethanol from ethyl acetate i should of really asked?

The only way i can think of is washing the ethyl acetate with water several times then dry over dried epsom salts as the ethyl acetate holds some water.
Does this sound workable? 		 
 
 
 
    lugh
(Moderator)
07-15-04 14:42
No 519569
       Azeotropes     

Ethanol, ethyl acetate and water all form binary azeotropes, and a ternary azeotrope as well; so distillation is pointless until you extract the ethanol and water with saturated brine laugh The crude ethyl acetate is then dried with calcium chloride and fractionally distilled wink
Chemistry is our Covalent Bond 		 
 
 
 
    12cheman12
(Hive Bee)
07-15-04 14:59
No 519571
       Thats excatly what i was looking for.     

Thats excatly what i was looking for.
Now wont we all bee pissed off if tomorrow i find some polish remover with ethyl acetate as the only ingredient? lol tongue
Thanks for the help guys. 		 
 
 
 
    superman
(Hive Bee)
07-17-04 10:06
No 519869
       just curious, what are you doing with the...     

just curious,   what are you doing with the ethyl acetate? 		 
 
 
 
    12cheman12
(Hive Bee)
07-17-04 10:29
No 519873
       Just gonna see how effective it is in cleaning     

Just gonna see how effective it is in cleaning pseudo.