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Anhydrous
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{{short description|Waterless substance}}{{More citations needed|date=June 2010}}A substance is anhydrous if it contains no water. Many processes in chemistry can be impeded by the presence of water; therefore, it is important that water-free reagents and techniques are used. In practice, however, it is very difficult to achieve perfect dryness; anhydrous compounds gradually absorb water from the atmosphere so they must be stored carefully.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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Solids
Many salts and solids can be dried using heat, or under vacuum. Desiccators can also be used to store reagents in dry conditions.Common desiccants include phosphorus pentoxide and silica gel. Chemists may also require dry glassware for sensitive reactions. This can be achieved by drying glassware in an oven, by flame, or under vacuum.Dry solids can be produced by freeze-drying, which is also known as lyophilization.Liquids or solvents
In many cases, the presence of water can prevent a reaction from happening, or cause undesirable products to form. To prevent this, anhydrous solvents must be used when performing certain reactions. Examples of reactions requiring the use of anhydrous solvents are the Grignard reaction and the Wurtz reaction.Solvents have typically been dried using distillation or by reaction with reactive metals or metal hydrides. These methods can be dangerous and are a common cause of lab fires. More modern techniques include the use of molecular sieves or a column purification system. Molecular sieves are far more effective than most common methods for drying solvents and are safer and require no special equipment for handling.JOURNAL, Williams, D. Bradley G., Lawton, Michelle, 2010-12-17, Drying of Organic Solvents: Quantitative Evaluation of the Efficiency of Several Desiccants, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 75, 24, 8351â8354, 10.1021/jo101589h, 20945830, 0022-3263, Column solvent purification devices (generally referred to as Grubb's columns) recently became available, reducing the hazards (water reactive substances, heat) from the classical dehydrating methods.WEB, Guidelines for solvent purification at UC Davis,weblink unfit,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20060904103225weblink">weblink September 4, 2006, WEB, Drying Solvents,weblink Anhydrous solvents are commercially available from chemical suppliers, and are packaged in sealed containers to maintain dryness.NEWS,weblink New Aldrich Sure/Seal® packaging for Anhydrous Solvents and Air-Sensitive Reagents, Sigma-Aldrich, 2018-03-26, en, Typically anhydrous solvents will contain approximately 10 ppm of water and will increase in wetness if they are not properly stored.Organic solutions can be dried using a range of drying agents. Typically following a workup the organic extract is dried using magnesium sulfate or a similar drying agent to remove most remaining water.WEB,weblink Drying agents, www.chem.ucla.edu, 2018-03-26, Anhydrous acetic acid is known as glacial acetic acid.Gases
Several substances that exist as gases at standard conditions of temperature and pressure are commonly used as concentrated aqueous solutions. To clarify that it is the gaseous form that is being referred to, the term anhydrous is prefixed to the name of the substance:- Gaseous ammonia is generally referred to as anhydrous ammonia, to distinguish it from its solution in water, household ammonia solution, also known as ammonium hydroxide.
- Gaseous hydrogen chloride is generally referred to as anhydrous, to distinguish it from its solution in water, hydrochloric acid.
See also
- Air-free technique
- Acidic oxide, a.k.a. acid anhydride
- Base anhydride
- Hydrate, a [chemical] substance that contains water or its constituent elements
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