Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Carrier
- Chemical Family
- Chemical Name
- CASE Ingredients Functions
- Cleaning Ingredients Functions
- Industrial Additives Functions
- Molecular formula
- C₄H₉(OCH₂CH₂)₂OH
- Technologies
- Product Families
Features & Benefits
- CASE Ingredients Features
- HII Features
- Product Features
Glycol Ether DB is a high boiling, slow evaporating, hydrophilic glycol ether. It is an outstanding solvent & coupling agent. It has an alcohol component to dissolve water soluble soil & an ether component to dissolve oil soluble soils. It acts by itself or in combination with surfactants to lower the surface tension of cleaning solutions.
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Applications
- Compatible Polymers & Resins
- Home Care Applications
- I&I Cleaning Applications
- Product Applications
- Latex coalescent in water-based architectural and industrial coatings.
- Coupling agent and solvent in household and industrial cleaners, rust removers, hard
- Surface cleaners, and disinfectants.
- Primary solvent in solvent-based silk screen printing inks.
- Coupling solvent for resins and dyes in water-based printing inks.
- Solvent for ball point and felt tip pen inks, and textile dyeing and printing.
- Coalescent for latex adhesives.
- Deactivator, stabilizer for agricultural pesticides.
Properties
- Physical Form
- Typical Physical Properties
Value Units Test Method / Conditions Molecular Weight 162.2 g/mol - Boiling Point 230 °C - Flash Point 114 °C Setaflash Closed Cup Freeze Point -68 °C - Vapor Pressure (Extrapolated) 0.03 mmHg - Specific Gravity (at 25/25°C) 0.951 - - Liquid Density 0.955 g/cm³ - Viscosity (at 25°C) 6 cPs - Surface Tension (Undiluted) 30 dynes/cm - Specific Heat (at 25°C) 2.26 J/g/°C - Heat of Vaporization (at Normal Boiling Point) 276 J/g - Net Heat of Combustion (25°C, Predicted) 28.7 kJ/g - Auto Ignition Temperature 210 °C - Evaporation Rate (n-butyl Acetate = 1) max. 0.01 - - Solubility (at 25°C,in Water) 955 g/100g - Hansen Solubility Parameters (Dispersion) 16 (J/cm³)¹/² - Hansen Solubility Parameters (Polar) 7 (J/cm³)¹/² - Hansen Solubility Parameters (Hydrogen Bonding) 10.6 (J/cm³)¹/² - Partition Coefficient (n-octonol/water, log Pow) 1 - - Flammable Limits (in Air, Lower) 0.85 vol% - Flammable Limits (in Air, Upper) 24.6 vol% - - Specifications
Value Units Test Method / Conditions Purity min. 99 wt% Acidity max. 0.010 wt% Water Content max. 0.10 wt% Color max. 10 - Pt-Co
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