Assertion: acetylene | /r/HasProperty | soluble
Facets:
value: in water
type: LOCATION
value: to a very limited extent
type: OTHER
value: readily
type: MANNER
value: in acetone
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The cylinders are packed with porous materials (e.g. kapok fibre, diatomaceous earth, or (formerly) asbestos), then filled to around 50% capacity with acetone, as acetylene is soluble in acetone.
text: Acetylene is readily soluble in water, which at normal temperature and pressure takes up a little more than its own volume of the gas, and yields a solution giving a purple-red precipitate with ammoniacal cuprous chloride and a white precipitate with silver nitrate, these precipitates consisting of acetylides of the metals.
text: Acetylene in Tanks.--Acetylene is soluble in water to a very limited extent, too limited to be of practical use.