Talk:Dean–Stark apparatus

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Where the hell's number eight?!? Alvis 04:58, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

:Yeah! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.237.2.66 (talk) 18:37, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

:: Image fixed - Quantockgoblin (talk) 22:59, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Inventor

Dean, E.W.; Stark, D.D., Ind. Eng. Chem. 1920, 12, 486 --Stone (talk) 19:33, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Uses

Rather than estimating water content, it is not much more commonly used to extract water and thereby drive a reaction equilibrium toward the desired outcome? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.168.17.209 (talk) 09:55, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

:As originally designed, it was meant very specifically to measure water content in petroleum products. A Barrett trap, with a stopcock on the burette is used for more general purposes. The use of a trap with an integrated burette may be less effective than using more general labware to produce a similar azeotropic reflux separation. Industrially you may find an application requiring a system like this, that is a cold trap with a valved condensate drain.

:These are all often still called a Dean Stark trap, due to scientific naming conventions. Lemtil (talk) 16:44, 2 June 2023 (UTC)