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    Experiment No.7 Determination of Alcoholic Content in Handy Hand Sanitizer

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    This document describes an experiment to determine the alcoholic content in a hand sanitizer through distillation. The experiment involves transferring a sample of the hand sanitizer into a distillation apparatus and collecting the distillate. The specific gravity of the distillate is then measured and used to ascertain the percentage of ethanol in the original sample, referring to an alcoholometric table. Precautions are outlined to ensure a clear distillate is collected, such as using a sufficiently large distilling flask and preventing bumping during distillation.

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    This document describes an experiment to determine the alcoholic content in a hand sanitizer through distillation. The experiment involves transferring a sample of the hand sanitizer into a distillation apparatus and collecting the distillate. The specific gravity of the distillate is then measured and used to ascertain the percentage of ethanol in the original sample, referring to an alcoholometric table. Precautions are outlined to ensure a clear distillate is collected, such as using a sufficiently large distilling flask and preventing bumping during distillation.

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    This document describes an experiment to determine the alcoholic content in a hand sanitizer through distillation. The experiment involves transferring a sample of the hand sanitizer into a distillation apparatus and collecting the distillate. The specific gravity of the distillate is then measured and used to ascertain the percentage of ethanol in the original sample, referring to an alcoholometric table. Precautions are outlined to ensure a clear distillate is collected, such as using a sufficiently large distilling flask and preventing bumping during distillation.

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    Experiment No.7 Determination of Alcoholic Content in Handy Hand Sanitizer

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    This document describes an experiment to determine the alcoholic content in a hand sanitizer through distillation. The experiment involves transferring a sample of the hand sanitizer into a distillation apparatus and collecting the distillate. The specific gravity of the distillate is then measured and used to ascertain the percentage of ethanol in the original sample, referring to an alcoholometric table. Precautions are outlined to ensure a clear distillate is collected, such as using a sufficiently large distilling flask and preventing bumping during distillation.

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    EXPERIMENT NO.

    7
    DETERMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC CONTENT IN HANDY
    HAND SANITIZER
    PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
    Handy Hand sanitizer
    VOLUME: 60 ml
    MANUFACTURER: Caraway Pharmaceuticals Rawat Islamabad.
    BATCH NO. HS379
    ALCOHOL CONTENT: More than 70%

    APPARATUS:
    Measuring cylinder, stirrers, thermometer, pipette, weighing balance, distillation apparatus, and
    pycnometer.

    CHEMICALS:
    Given hand sanitizer, Distilled water

    PROCEDURE:
    By means of a pipet, transfer to a suitable distilling apparatus not less than 25 mL of the liquid in
    which the alcohol is to be determined and note the temperature at which the volume was measured.
    Dilute the specimen with about twice its volume of water, collect a volume of distillate about 2
    mL less than twice the volume of the original test liquid, bring to the temperature at which the
    original liquid was measured, add sufficient water to measure exactly twice the original volume of
    the test liquid and mix . The distillate is clear or not more than slightly cloudy and does not contain
    more than traces of volatile substances other than alcohol and water. Determine the specific gravity
    of distillate.
    DETERMINATION OF SPECIFIC GRAVITY
    Select a scrupulously clean, dry pycnometer that previously has been calibrated by determining its
    weight and the weight of recently boiled water contained in it at 25°. Adjust the temperature of the
    liquid to about 20° and fill the pycnometer with it. Adjust the temperature of the filled pycnometer
    to 25°, remove any excess liquid, and weigh. When the monograph specifies a temperature
    different from 25°, filled pycnometers must be brought to the temperature of the balance before
    they are weighed. Subtract the tare weight of the pycnometer from the filled weight. The specific
    gravity of the liquid is the quotient obtained by dividing the weight of the liquid contained in the
    pycnometer by the weight of water contained in it, both determined at 25°.
    Using this result to ascertain the percentage, by volume, of C2H5OH contained in the elixir
    examined by reference to the Alcoholometric Table. The proportion of C2H5OH, by volume, in
    this distillate, as ascertained from its specific gravity, equals one-half that in the liquid examined.
    PRECAUTIONS AND REQUIREMENT FOR DISTILLATE COLLECTION:
    • The capacity of the distilling flask is sufficient (commonly two to four times the volume
    of the liquid to be heated) and the rate of distillation is such that clear distillates are
    produced.
    • Cloudy distillates may be clarified by agitation with talc, or with calcium carbonate, and
    filtered, after which the temperature of the filtrate is adjusted, and the alcohol content
    determined from the specific gravity.
    • During all manipulations, take precautions to minimize the loss of alcohol by evaporation.
    • Treat liquids that froth to a troublesome extent during distillation by rendering them
    strongly acidic with phosphoric, sulfuric, or tannic acid, or treat with a slight excess of
    calcium chloride solution or with a small amount of paraffin or silicone oil before starting
    the distillation.
    • Prevent bumping during distillation by adding porous chips of insoluble material such as
    silicon carbide, or beads.

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