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Hygroscopic behaviour of DMSO - how bad is it?
Being curious about the hygroscopicity I have tried the experiment using pure, dried DMSO in our lab where the temperature was $21^\circ \text{C}$ and the relative humidity about $60\%$.
Have a look at the two images below. This is a DMSO droplet originally with $V=50\; \mu\text{L}$. You can clearly see that the volume of the droplet has increased substantially in 20 minutes from the different height.
Using a crude approximation, assuming that both shapes are caps of a sphere, I calculated that the change in height from 100 px, to 112 px is equivalent to a volume increase of $15\%$, which is much too big for an accurate flow experiment.
Being curious about the hygroscopicity I have tried the experiment using pure, dried DMSO in our lab where the temperature was $21^\circ \text{C}$ and the relative humidity about $60\%$.
Have a look at the two images below. This is a DMSO droplet originally with $V=50\; \mu\text{L}$. You can clearly see that the volume of the droplet has increased substantially in 20 minutes from the different height.
Using a crude approximation, assuming that both shapes are caps of a sphere, I calculated that the change in height from 100 px, to 112 px is equivalent to a volume increase of $15\%$, which is much too big for an accurate flow experiment.
Being curious about the hygroscopicity I have tried the experiment using pure, dried DMSO in our lab where the temperature was $21^\circ \text{C}$ and the relative humidity about $60\%$.
Have a look at the two images below. This is a DMSO droplet originally with $V=50\; \mu\text{L}$. You can clearly see that the volume of the droplet has increased substantially in 20 minutes from the different height.
Using a crude approximation, assuming that both shapes are caps of a sphere, I calculated that the change in height from 100 px, to 112 px is equivalent to a volume increase of $15\%$, which is much too big for an accurate flow experiment.
Being curious about the hygroscopicity I have tried the experiment using pure, dried DMSO in our lab where the temperature was $21^\circ \text{C}$ and the relative humidity about $60\%$.
Have a look at the two images below. This is a DMSO droplet originally with $V=50\; \mu\text{L}$. You can clearly see that the volume of the droplet has increased substantially in 20 minutes from the different height.
Using a crude approximation, assuming that both shapes are caps of a sphere, I calculated that the change in height from 100 px, to 112 px is equivalent to a volume increase of $15\%$, which is much too big for an accurate flow experiment.
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