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Freding
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 Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:58 am Post subject: Formalin pH? |
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| Do anyone know why a formaldehyde water solution (formalin) is acidic?
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adrian
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:02 pm Post subject: formaldehyde |
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The solution is acidic because the acid is used to stabilize the aldehyde. If you open any aldehyde monograph, you'll see that aldehydes have important reactivity, and formaldehyde and acetic aldehyde are particularly unstable, mainly in alkaline solution (condensations). In time, those aldehydes react by themselves to do paraformaldehyde, respective paraacetaldehyde (aldehyde polymers) as precipitates. You can regenerate the aldehydes from polymers by treating with warm water.
Back to formaldehyde, you'll find, beside the acidic media, an important amount of methanol used as stabilizer too.
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Freding
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:35 am Post subject: Re: formaldehyde |
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| adrian wrote: |
The solution is acidic because the acid is used to stabilize the aldehyde. If you open any aldehyde monograph, you'll see that aldehydes have important reactivity, and formaldehyde and acetic aldehyde are particularly unstable, mainly in alkaline solution (condensations). In time, those aldehydes react by themselves to do paraformaldehyde, respective paraacetaldehyde (aldehyde polymers) as precipitates. You can regenerate the aldehydes from polymers by treating with warm water.
Back to formaldehyde, you'll find, beside the acidic media, an important amount of methanol used as stabilizer too. |
Thankyou adrian. Do you (or someone else) know what kind of acid that is used to stabilize? Formic acid?
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luzont
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| I have a solution of 10% formalin buffered with Sodium Phosphate and using methanol as a stabilizer. The expected pH is 6.9-7.1 at 25 C.
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