Solvents and You Archives - Solvent Industry Association https://www.solvents.org.uk/category/solvents-and-you/ Solvent Industry Association Thu, 08 Sep 2022 11:07:39 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.solvents.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/sia-favicon-1.png Solvents and You Archives - Solvent Industry Association https://www.solvents.org.uk/category/solvents-and-you/ 32 32 Common Uses of Solvents https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/common-uses-of-solvents/ https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/common-uses-of-solvents/#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:03:03 +0000 http://www.solvents.org.uk/?p=193 Solvent products are utilised in almost all manufacturing processes in a wide variety of applications. Many of the products we use that […]

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]]> https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/common-uses-of-solvents/feed/ 0 Types of Solvent https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/forms-of-solvent/ https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/forms-of-solvent/#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:01:22 +0000 http://www.solvents.org.uk/?p=191 Solvents can be classed as organic or inorganic materials. Water, the simplest and most abundant solvent on earth is classed […]

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]]> https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/forms-of-solvent/feed/ 0 Solvents and You https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/solvents-and-you/ https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/solvents-and-you/#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:38 +0000 http://www.solvents.org.uk/?p=189 Solvents are chemical products which have the ability to dissolve, suspend or extract other substances without changing their physical properties. Solvents can […]

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]]> https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/solvents-and-you/feed/ 0 Hydrocarbon Solvents https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/hydrocarbon-solvents/ https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/hydrocarbon-solvents/#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:01:53 +0000 https://www.solvents.org.uk/?p=1393 As the name suggests, hydrocarbon solvents contain only carbon and hydrogen atoms within their structure.There are hundreds of different types […]

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]]> https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/hydrocarbon-solvents/feed/ 0 Oxygenated Solvents https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/oxygenated-solvents/ https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/oxygenated-solvents/#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:00:32 +0000 https://www.solvents.org.uk/?p=1375 Oxygenated solvents are solvents whose chemical structure contains carbon atoms, hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms. The four main groups of […]

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]]> https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/aromatic-hydrocarbons/feed/ 0 Hydrocarbon Solvents – Aliphatic Hydrocarbons https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/aliphatic-hydrocarbons/ https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/aliphatic-hydrocarbons/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:35:26 +0000 https://www.solvents.org.uk/?p=1397 Aliphatic hydrocarbons can be supplied as highly pure single products such as hexane or heptane (normal or iso), cyclic (eg. […]

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]]> https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/aliphatic-hydrocarbons/feed/ 0 Hydrocarbon Solvents – Distillates and Dearomatised Grades https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/hydrocarbon-solvents-distillates-and-dearomatised-grades/ https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/hydrocarbon-solvents-distillates-and-dearomatised-grades/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:30:30 +0000 https://www.solvents.org.uk/?p=1442 Petroleum distillates are produced from crude oil in the refining process by fractional distillation. Distillates can be collected from the […]

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]]> https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/hydrocarbon-solvents-distillates-and-dearomatised-grades/feed/ 0 Oxygenated Solvents – Alcohols https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/alcohols/ https://www.solvents.org.uk/solvents-and-you/alcohols/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:29:41 +0000 https://www.solvents.org.uk/?p=1384 Alcohols are a versatile range of solvents used in large quantities in a wide range of applications. Very miscible with […]

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