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Phenol Water CST SSaha PDF
Phenol Water CST SSaha PDF
Phenol Water CST SSaha PDF
Aim: To determine the Critical Solution Temperature (CST) or upper consolute point of phenol-water
system.
Principle: Two partially miscible liquids may become completely miscible at a higher temperature since solubility
increases with temperature generally. This miscibility temperature is different for different compositions of the mixture.
The highest miscibility temperature is called the critical solution temperature or CST. Above this temperature, all
compositions of this mixture are completely miscible.
75 Disappearance
Reappearance
70
Temperature / C
o
65
60
55
50
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 100
Wt% of Phenol in Water
65
60
55
50
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Wt% of Phenol in Water
80
Avg. miscibility Temp. / C
70
0
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Wt%
Anurima's data: of Phenol
Effect in Water
of impurity on CST (2/8/11)
200
Avg. miscibility temp.
150
Avg. miscibility Temp. / C
0
100
50
-50
-100
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Wt% of Phenol in Water
Comment: Above two figures show the importance of X-axis range. Data sets are same for all three figures.
Aim: To determine the effect of impurity (KCl salt) on the Critical Solution Temperature (CST) of phenol-
water system.
Observation: