Property
Clear, colorless, flowing and volatile combustible liquid with a pleasant fruit odor. Relative density (20℃): 0.902g／cm3 ; melting point: -83℃; boiling point: 77.15℃. It is flammable, and slightly soluble in water. And it is soluble in normal organic solvents such as alcohol, ether, ketone, aether, chloroform, benzene and gasoline etc, and is miscible with certain solvents to form azeotropic mixtures. It has a refractive index of 1.3719 and a flash point of 7.2℃ (open cup)
Applications
One of very important organic chemical raw materials and widely used. As an important industrial solvent, it is mainly used in such products as paintings, adhesives, ethylcellulose, leatheroid, malthoid colorant and synthetic fibers etc. It is also used as an adhesive in the production of printing ink and Venetian pearl, used as a distillation agent in the production of medical-use medicines and organic acid etc., and used as fruit essences such as pineapple and banana etc. and as perfume such as usquebaugh and butter etc.
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