Doing more research here and BA has a flashpoint of 96 degrees Celsius. Keep that in mind if for any reason you are using any sort of flame under your beaker.
Who the hell uses flame? I hope people don't.
It’s not like we use a lot of it or go that high with the heat but you might have a point about the vaporizing.
Put some ba on a napkin
Put some ethanol on a napkin
Well put quite some to make it more easily observable.
Observe.
I did it too. This shit will not vaporize. For this, there was no heat applied.
It took hours and it was still there.
It is BENZYL. It will leave an oily-ish stamp on the napkin.
I repeat, the fact that it is an alcohol does not mean that it behaves like ethanol.
A small change greatly affects a chemical.
Ethanol won't stain the napkin.
This shit at 2% is not going anywhere IN an oily solution.
My wife is a chemistry professor and works in a lab and really had no answer for this except what you said about alcohols vaporizing and low temperatures. She said if it is vaporizing at 50 degrees all by itself then yeah maybe add it after the last cool down and prior to filtering.
20ml of 100% benzyl alcohol behavior has nothing to do with 2% spread out in a an oily solution consisting of 4 components.
I guess kinda like water how you can start seeing steam even from a shower but it’s not close to boiling. You may lose some of the product.
Particularly in the case you mentioned,this is absolutely not evaporation.
It's called condensation and is a result of a different mechanism. Water isn't going anywhere.
I was with someone of a related field when the stirrer shat on me. I cannot give specifics.
I told him what's the debate and when he saw the napkin,he said "benzyl group, that's why the low volatility".
I repeat,the stirrer got shat. I didn't do what I wanted.