Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A liquid mixture of two or more substances that boils at a constant characteristic temperature lower or higher than any of its components and that retains the same composition in the vapor state as in the liquid state.
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- noun physical chemistry, physics A
mixture of two or more substances whoseliquid andgaseous forms have the samecomposition (at a certainpressure ); the substances cannot beseparated by normaldistillation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ethanol and water at the 96/4 proportions form an azeotrope, which is a mixture of stuff that boils in the same proportions as it is in liquid form.
Archive 2007-10-01 James Killus 2007
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Ethanol and water at the 96/4 proportions form an azeotrope, which is a mixture of stuff that boils in the same proportions as it is in liquid form.
Alcohol James Killus 2007
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Things like methylene chloride being rather more weirdly polar as a solvent than you'd expect, or the fact that some amines will stick to solid magnesium sulfate drying agent (but not sodium sulfate), or how you can azeotrope out acetic acid with toluene, or how you want palladium tetrakis to be lemon yellow and not orange
In the Pipeline 2010
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Water and ethanol form an azeotrope - a mixture whose composition can't be changed by distillation - at a ratio of 95.6: 4.4 ethanol: water.
Bayblab 2009
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For chemical as well as regulatory reasons, it is unlikely that 100\% ethanol is used; given the formation of an azeotrope at approximately 95 percent, it's hard even to get 100\% ethanol.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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For chemical as well as regulatory reasons, it is unlikely that 100\% ethanol is used; given the formation of an azeotrope at approximately 95 percent, it's hard even to get 100\% ethanol.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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For chemical as well as regulatory reasons, it is unlikely that 100\% ethanol is used; given the formation of an azeotrope at approximately 95 percent, it's hard even to get 100\% ethanol.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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For chemical as well as regulatory reasons, it is unlikely that 100\% ethanol is used; given the formation of an azeotrope at approximately 95 percent, it's hard even to get 100\% ethanol.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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For chemical as well as regulatory reasons, it is unlikely that 100\% ethanol is used; given the formation of an azeotrope at approximately 95 percent, it's hard even to get 100\% ethanol.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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For chemical as well as regulatory reasons, it is unlikely that 100\% ethanol is used; given the formation of an azeotrope at approximately 95 percent, it's hard even to get 100\% ethanol.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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