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What does ligroin mean?

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  1. (archaic) A petroleum fraction boiling 75°-125°C used as a solvent and fuel.
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The crude crystals are recrystallized from a mixture of toluene and ligroin by use of decolorizing charcoal.
Among other non-hydrophilic organic solvents mentioned above, benzene and ligroin prove to be particularly desirable for practical use.
Ligroin is a mixture of saturated hydrocarbons with properties of hexanes.
When nothing is known about the mixture being separated, the column is prepared in ligroin or hexane, the least polar of the eluting solvents.
Ligroin is a common solvent used in reactions which consist mostly of mixed hexanes.
Aluminium oxide, polyvinylchloride and polyethylene were used as solid particles in ligroin and tetralin.

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