noun
definition
A petroleum fraction boiling 75°-125°C used as a solvent and fuel.
Examples of ligroin in a Sentence
Conhydrine, CsH 17 NO, and pseudoconhydrine are probably stereoisomers, the latter being converted into the former when boiled with ligroin.
By exposure to sunlight, either alone or dissolved in ether or ligroin, it gives lustrous orange plates of diferrononacarbonyl, Fe2(CO)3.
The distillate obtained was diluted with one hundred volumes of ligroin (previously purified by shaking with fuming sulphuric acid) and then shaken for one or two hours with sulphuric acid (using ten volumes of acid to one volume of the distillate), the acid layer diluted with water, neutralized by lead carbonate and the lead salt again distilled with an equivalent quantity of ammonium chloride.