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pseudocumene

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pseudocumene

[¦sü·dō′kyü·mēn]
(organic chemistry)
C9H12 Water-insoluble, hydrocarbon liquid, boiling at 168°C; soluble in alcohol, benzene, and ether; used to manufacture perfumes and dyes, and as a catgut sterilant. Also known as pseudocumol; uns-trimethylbenzene.
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1,2,4-trimethylbenzene (124TMB) is another major gasoline component in the aromatic group as shown in Table 7.
A kinetic approach using 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene. Part I: A mechanistic kinetic model," Organic Geochemistry, vol.
Chemical summary for 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene. Washington (DC): The Agency; 1994 [cited 2013 Jul 3].
This sample also contained the highest detected concentrations of 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene (200 pg/L), methyl isobutyl ketone (10,000 [micro]g/L), isopropyl alcohol (1,200,000 [micro]g/L), and ethanol (480,000 [micro]g/L).
Specifically, Borexino is a scintillator detector [50] which employs as active detection medium a mixture of pseudocumene (PC, 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene) and PPO (2,5-diphenyloxazole, a fluorescent dye) at a concentration of 1.5 g/L.
The solvents used for the solvent-based stains were acetone, n-butyl acetate, xylenes, 2-butoxyethanol, 1-methoxy-2-propanol, toluene, naphta, isobutanol, 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene, butan-1-ol, and 4-hydroxy-4-methyl-2-pentanone.
(70) Some of the current candidates, for example, include the microbe Helicobacter pylori and the chemical 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene. (71)
The EPA alleges that HON did not file TRI paperwork reporting its use of xylene and 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene from 1999 to 2001.
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