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Gases and Non-polar Solvents

aj47
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This morning I was heating up a large pan of oil and I noticed that when the oil got to a certain heat, small bubbles of gas would form on the bottom of the pan and rise to the top as water does when it boils. This confused me a little as I always assumed gases cannot dissolve in non polar solvents. Does anyone know what was going on?

perhaps its something about the type of oil

Air can dissolve in oil and non-polar solvents. For example, sodium is sometimes used to store sodium, but the sodium can still slowly oxidize because oxygen from the air can dissolve in the oil.

yeah gases can dissolve in non polar solvents. maybe not as much but they still dissolve to some extent.

sodium is used to store sodium? Do you mean mineral oil?

 

Lol, yes, mineral oil...sorry about that.

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