N-pentane:
- Character: Colorless liquid with a faint mint aroma.
- Melting point (℃): -129.8
- Boiling point (℃): 36.1
- Relative density (water=1): 0.63
- Relative vapor density (air=1): 2.48
N-pentane Usage:
- Used as a low boiling point solvent, a foaming agent for plastic industry, and also used together with 2-methylbutane as fuel for automobiles and aircraft, manufacturing artificial ice, anesthetics, and synthesizing pentanol, isopentane, etc.
- Gas chromatography analysis standards. Used as an anesthetic, solvent, in the manufacturing of low-temperature thermometers, as well as in the manufacturing of artificial ice, pentanol, isopentane, etc.
- Used for preparing standard gas, calibration gas, and as a molecular sieve desorption agent.
- Used as a solvent, gas chromatography reference liquid, and anesthetic. It is also used for organic synthesis and the manufacture of low-temperature thermometers.
- Used as a solvent to manufacture artificial ice, anesthetics, and synthesize pentanol, isopentane, etc.
