Talk:Petroleum naphtha/Draft

Would appreciate reviews and comments

No article is ever perfect. I would appreciate any reviews, comments or constructive criticisms of this article. - Milton Beychok 23:27, 31 January 2008 (CST)

Thanks for a nagging clarification

I'd always wondered about the relationship between petroleum ether I used in the biochem lab and the petroleum naptha in the ChemE textbook. Howard C. Berkowitz 18:11, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Howard, petroleum naphtha has many uses as a solvent other than being a catalytic reformer feedstock for producing high-octane gasoline. And it has a number of more-or-less synonyms, namely petroleum ether, petroleum spirits, mineral spirits, paraffin, benzine, hexanes, ligroin, white oil or white gas, painters naphtha, refined solvent naphtha and Varnish makers' & painters' naphtha (VM&P). I say more-or-less synonyms because some of those naphtha solvents have slightly different boiling ranges and other characteristics than does the naphtha used as a catalytic reformer feedstock. See here. Regards, Milton Beychok 19:20, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

I really should get to reviewing and editing.

Copy nits: second paragraph, second sentence is missing an "of". I thought I saw a missing "the", but I think it ran under the bed.

I've reread it a few times, and I really wonder if "petroleum naphthas" would be a better title, which you do use in some subheads. The plural, to me, better implies the variability of the product. Is there, perhaps, more standardization in laboratory grades, or should I have grabbed a few bottles, from one batch from one manufacturer, and used that for all my extractions? Howard C. Berkowitz 05:15, 29 July 2010 (UTC)