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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using ether as a solvent for the extraction of organic
compounds?
2. What volume of an organic solvent must be used to effect 90% separation in one extraction when
only 2.7 g of a certain compound dissolves in 100 ml of water? (K= 15)
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answers: to make sure that all of the broken pieces of tablet were added to the water, to allow for fair comparison of all three trials, with different particle sizes to avoid experimental error

because natural gas is colorless, odorless, and tasteless, distributors add mercaptan (a chemical that smells like sulfur) to give natural gas a distinct unpleasant odor (it smells like rotten eggs). they locate the types of rock that are likely to contain natural gas deposits.