bluamine
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How to make an oil bath???
Hi everyone!!
I want forum experts to explain to me what can I use in an oil bath? (To make my question clear I want to understand it generally, then in making
ethylene from ethanol)
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This is something you could very easily google or search the forum for.
There's your answer.
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i dis so before but I found different chemicals could be used so can I choose anyone
of them?
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Do you have heater? Mine was deep fat fryer. It is amazingly precise in temperature control. I can heat 10 ml t0 2000 ml rb flasks. I can hold the oil
+/- 1*C!!!
I use diethyl pthalate for the "oil." It doesn't smoke below ~ 300 *C but I try to use it in the hood for higher temps. For some reactions I prefer it
to heating mantles. I found it at a garage sale. It hadn't been used. Pure serendipity.
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It is usually recommended to use mineral oil, which has similar properties to diethyl pthalate. Vegetable oils are generally cheaper and easier to
obtain. Under 200 C or so you can use a vegetable oil with a high smoke point. I often see people on here use expensive oils with low smoke points
(like peanut, canola, olive, etc.) - but soybean oil is cheap and good to fairly high temperatures. It is sold as "vegetable oil" in the United
States. You can use a search engine to find the smoke point of any particular oil.
I usually heat my oil baths with immersion heaters.
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Google is your friend. This site already has 13 threads on the same subject:
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=10535
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=11289
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=13455
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=7066
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=12218
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=14823
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=62742
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=16440
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=6237
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=34913
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=22750
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=19580
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=62173
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DOT 3 silicon brake fluid
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Has anyone used molten paraffin wax as an "oil" bath?
[Edited on 15-12-2015 by Mabus]
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I used to. It's nice because you can just let it solidify and the flasks break right off the chunk. It's also easy to store the bath without having to
drain it to prevent spillage/contamination.
The problem is that if you take the flask out before the wax is solid (as usually happens when you stop a distillation, etc), the solid wax is a pain
in the ass to scrape off the flask. Heat guns and paper towels help, which make great fire-starters afterward, but in the end it's a tedious mess. It
is also inevitable that the lab bench/jacks/clamps need wax scraped off.
Also, my bath is an electric saucepan, so I use it with both water and oil. The wax would have to be melted and poured to convert it back and forth
from water to oil anyway, so I just use DOT 5 silicone oil brake fluid. This has the advantage of not oxidizing with air, it boils low enough to be
distilled if it gets contaminated, it's non-flammable, and cleans up with soap and water. It will also help keep apparatus rust-free if you wipe down
your clamps and stuff with the oily rag after cleanup.
But really I stopped using oil baths in general as soon as I got a heating mantle.
[Edited on 15-12-2015 by Praxichys]
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Quote: Originally posted by Praxichys  | | It will also help keep apparatus rust-free if you wipe down your clamps and stuff with the oily rag after cleanup. |
That is an excellent suggestion.
Quite a lot of Shedworld steel items are seriously rusty these days.
Maybe filling the shed with Chlorine and then HCl gas was not such a great idea.
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Fry-Daddy. 18 bucks at Wal-Mart.
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Is this it? Is the temperature variable, or would that require the
addition of a rheostat?
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yup, thats it. fixed temp but cheap and not a fire hazxard
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I have an earlier model of this, which has a built-in temperature control:
http://www.amazon.com/Presto-Options-Electric-Multi-Cooker-S...
It's not too much more expensive (~$25) and it will hold temps within about 5C from about 80C to 230C. (graduated from "simmer" to 450F). I got mine
for free from a burned-down house but I see them all the time at the goodwill store for about $5.
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I assume that the Fry Daddy is capable of achieving higher temperatures than a standard crockpot, correct? I've only seen crockpots at my local
thrift shops.
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| Quote: Originally posted by chemrox | Do you have heater? Mine was deep fat fryer. It is amazingly precise in temperature control. I can heat 10 ml t0 2000 ml rb flasks. I can hold the oil
+/- 1*C!!!
I use diethyl pthalate for the "oil." It doesn't smoke below ~ 300 *C but I try to use it in the hood for higher temps. For some reactions I prefer it
to heating mantles. I found it at a garage sale. It hadn't been used. Pure serendipity. |
Yes i do.. & thanks for informations
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| Quote: Originally posted by JJay | It is usually recommended to use mineral oil, which has similar properties to diethyl pthalate. Vegetable oils are generally cheaper and easier to
obtain. Under 200 C or so you can use a vegetable oil with a high smoke point. I often see people on here use expensive oils with low smoke points
(like peanut, canola, olive, etc.) - but soybean oil is cheap and good to fairly high temperatures. It is sold as "vegetable oil" in the United
States. You can use a search engine to find the smoke point of any particular oil.
I usually heat my oil baths with immersion heaters. |
Why are smokeless oils preferable?!
I read about using glycerin but I would prefer nitroglycerin 
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bluamine
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Thanks bro. I will check them later. It is too late here now..
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you will find out the first time you use a non-smokeless oil. It will make a TON of smoke
[Edited on 20-12-15 by The_Davster]
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