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26 June, 09:27

In this experiment, why didn't we just use ethanol to extract the trimyristin (instead of dichloromethane) ? this would have saved us a step and we would have been able to recrystallize directly after filtration.

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  1. 26 June, 09:35
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    There is a polarity difference between ethanol and dichloromethane which causes them to have different solubilities. Ethanol is polar due to the presence of the hydroxyl group.
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