Talk:Butanol

message: " Butanol at 85 percent strength can be used in cars designed for gasoline (petrol) without any change to the engine (unlike 85% ethanol)"
What is the "strength" of a substance? And what is it measured against/mixed with? 143.50.183.196 (talk) 15:36, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "It has also been proposed that butanol be synthesized from ethanol through electrolysis.[citation needed]
    2 C2H5OH + 2 C2H5OH → 2 C4H9OH + 2 H2 + O2" 
I suggest that this be struck from the article if it cannot be substantiated from the original author. I cannot locate any credible source for this. I wish I could and so do many others but...Beameupscotty 01:31, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Electrolysis of Ethanol to Butanol 

message: The melt point is 25.69 °C for t-butanol. Is this correct or is it -25.69 °C?
:Yes, it is correct.  t-Butanol has a melting point right around room temperature.  --Ed (Edgar181) 17:02, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Butanol Melting Point 

message: I suggest to move each compound (1-butanol;2-butanol;1-metilbutanol;etc.) to differents articles, and convert this article in a disambiguation like in Spanish, Deutsch, Nederlands and Svenska.<DIV align="Right">Eloy (200.122.55.96 20:17, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation 

message: According to Cordite and other sources (e.g., an email from Dr. Eveleigh, a microbiology professor here (http://www.cook.rutgers.edu/~dbm/dougeveleigh.html)), Weizmann's acetone was useful primarily in making Cordite, not trinitrotoluene (TNT). I will alter this link. If someone has a reference for it being also important for making trinitrotoluene, please add the TNT link back in addition to the Cordite link, and note your reference here and/or
on the trinitrotoluene page. --Allens 15:52, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  TNT or Cordite? 

message: I've looked through several different references and handbooks. For instance, I looked through several of the links at Wikipedia:Chemical sources and didn't find the term. Except for some press releases on Google, and this article, I can't find any verifiable references to this term.  Perhaps someone would care to share a credible reference.  Is trying to push some sort of point of view unrelated to the compound or its properties? WVhybrid 06:22, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See the butanol fuel about biobutanol. On the other hand, I have read butanol is C4H9OH instead of C4H10OH (nine instead of ten). Is it true  , ,  and so on...?. --Altermike 12:50, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Bio''butanol 

message: Dear all,  in the state the document is now, I would almost recommend renaming it to biobutanol.  As already pointed out by WVhybrid (contribution above this one) it looks like someone is putting his point of view on this.  I think all the material about biobutanol should move to an article on 'alternative fuels', or something similar (making this article more about the properties of butanol, it could state that it is used as an alternative fuel, providing a link there).  Could ppl please give their opinion on this.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:31, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no idea with regard the validity of this name, but it seems plausible for such a name to exist. My stand would be the same as that on ethanol - "bioethanol" is chemically no different from butanol. It should not deserve a full article. If there is sufficient detail regarding biologically produced butanol to merit a full article, it should be placed in a Butanol fuel page, for consistency wiith Ethanol fuel and Methanol fuel. --Rifleman 82 09:01, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV? 

message: You know, I don't think n-butanol is miscible in water.  I do fractionations in butanol/water and it forms two distinct layers.  Of course there could be some butanol in the water layer (I didn't NMR it or anything), but a solubility of 9.1ml/100ml?  The figure seems a bit high to me.  Having said that, I've only used a roughly 1:1 ratio of butanol to water.
Jkwan (talk) 19:05, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Miscibility of n-butanol in water 

message: This could use a chembox like most of the other alcohols and chemicals
~AQ 01:59, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chembox 

message: This article can be merged with the n-butanol page as it is more informative.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kreutznaer (talk • contribs) 10:55, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggest merging with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-butanol 

message: Why is the Greek name for the chemical on the top of the page.
This seems entirely useless.
--Akku anka (talk) 00:49, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greek name