Acetone impurity effects on the binary fluid mixture methanol–cyclohexane

Abstract

Measurements on the coexistence curves of the binary fluid mixture methanol–cyclohexane with increasing amounts of acetone impurity showed essentially linear changes in the critical temperature and critical concentration with impurity. Adding 1.0% acetone impurity caused the critical temperature to decrease by 3.4 K, the effective critical exponent β to increase and the critical concentration, as measured by volume fraction methanol, to decrease by 0.005.