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Ethanolic Potassium Hydroxide

aminamood - 4-11-2015 at 07:55

Why would we use potassium hydroxide solution in ethanol instead of methanol or water?

We're performing acid value titrations of oil products.

agent_entropy - 5-11-2015 at 11:58

Presumably because the ethanol is just non-polar enough to maintain miscibility with the oil sample.