Re: Paraffin/liquid mixture
From: Frank Logullo (frankDOTlogullo_at_dol.net)
Date: 01/30/05
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:54:52 GMT
<dbohara@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> I am looking for a way to make a mixture of solid paraffin in which
> bubbles of liquid hydrocarbon are suspended. I would like to vary the
> volume ratio of bubbles to paraffin. I have done some experimenting by
> heating paraffin to liquid, mixing in diesel or other oil with a
> motorized paint stirrer and allowing it to harden. Under a microscope,
> I see tiny pores that I think are the diesel and when I squeeze it I
> see what I think is diesel ooze out. I'd really like to know a little
> more about the chemistry of this in order to choose my hydrocarbon
> better. What does determine the solubility of a hydrocarbon in a
> paraffin? I see a lot of material about solubility of paraffin in
> hydrocarbons but not the other way around.
> Basically, what I am looking for is liquid bubbles that will expand or
> evaporate very rapidly as the paraffin burns thus causing the paraffin
> surface to become tiny droplets with high ratio of surface area to
> volume.
> Any ideas?
>
Offhand, thinking that PE is soluble to about 6% above its melting point,
the answer may be to heat it up.
Cooling may give a desirable gel.
Frank
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