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DURING the last few months, five emulsions formed during extractions, and unbreakable by any of the usual methods, have been broken rapidly and completely by addition of a wetting agent under the conditions described elsewhere for breaking emulsions of sea-water in fuel oil1. In three cases, Teepol was used, and in two, Turkey Red Oil. The emulsions were formed during ether extractions in all cases; but other solvents were also present.
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Lawrence, A. S. C., Chem. and Indust., 615 (1948). Lawrence, A. S. C., and Killner, W., J. Inst. Petroleum, 34, 821 (1948).
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LAWRENCE, A., BARBY, D. & MILLS, O. A Method of Breaking Emulsions. Nature 164, 536 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164536a0
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