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Thiodiglycol from ink

Reverend Necroticus Rex - 4-8-2004 at 05:21

I have recently been trying to seperate out thiodiglycol from ink from ballpoint pens, I have no distillation equipment to speak of, so I have been mixing the ink with an great excess of water and filtering though filter paper, a few washes get it almost clear.

I am thinking, for the final seperation of thiodiglycol, taking advantage of the fact that thiodiglycol melts at -16 C and freezing it out, like with the procedure for freeze concentrating H2O2.

Could someone with better access to university libraries/literature than I perhaps have a look to see if there is any thiodiglycol/H2O azeotrope when freezing it out of aq. solution?

Your help would be much appreciated, thanks,

The Rev.