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becausechemistry@lemy.lol 3 days agoThis image is a reference to things like this, where you send dry (containing low water content) solvent through a column of activated alumina to make it even more dry.
It doesn’t really work as well with some solvents. The one I used in grad school had DCM, toluene, THF, and acetonitrile. If we needed dry DMSO, DMF, DMAc, acetone, MEK, or alcohols they had to come from a sealed bottle.
marcos@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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