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Physical & Chemical properties

Endpoint summary

Administrative data

Description of key information

Additional information

Substance Endpoint Hexadecan-1 -ol
State of the substance paraffin like solid, organic, odour: typical
Melting/ Freezing point pour point: 51 °C
Boiling point 319 °C
Density 0.8886 g/ml at 16 °C
Vapour pressure

0.003 mBar (0.28 Pa) at 38 °C;

[purified alcohol 0.0014 Pa at 25°C (literature)]

Surface tension ca. 66.5 mN/m at ca. 90% saturated aqueous solution (estimated by read-across)
Water solubility

<1.0 mg/L at 23 °C

[0.024 mg/L at 25 ºC (literature)]

Partition coefficient, logPow

6.7; 7.3 at 23 °C

Flash point 149 °C
Flammability

 waiving statement

Explosiveness

 waiving statement

Ignition temperature 272 °C
Oxidizing Properties  waiving statement
Granulometry  waiving statement
Viscosity (static) 3.394 mm²/s at 100 °C

 Stability in organic solvents

 waiving statement
 Dissociation constant  pKa 15.8 (QSAR estimation)