Decane

Dean

Colorless liquid

Liquid

0.73 g · cm -3

-29.7 ° C

174 ° C.

160 Pa ( 20 ° C)

• Insoluble in water
• Soluble in many organic solvents

1.4090 (25 ° C)

Risk

2000 mg · m-3

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N -decane (also simply decane, sometimes Dean ) is a colorless liquid with molecular formula C10H22 belongs in organic chemistry to the unbranched alkanes of the hydrocarbons. For n -decane is to say on the unbranched representatives of the 75 isomers.

Properties

In water, n -decane insoluble ( hydrophobic). The surface tension of 0.0238 N · m -1.

Safety characteristics

N-decane is above the flash point temperature flammable vapor -air mixtures. The compound has a flash point of 46 ° C. The explosion range is between 0.7 vol% (41 g/m3) as the lower explosive limit ( LEL) and 5.4 % by volume (320 g/m3 ) and upper explosive limit (UEL ). The marginal gap width was determined to be 1.01 mm. The result is thus a mapping in the explosion group IIA. The ignition temperature is 200 ° C. The fabric falls within the temperature class T4.

Hazards

N- decane, defatted and reddens the skin, in the eyes of the liquid leads to pain and redness.