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| Dear Experts, I just noticed that some preparations of Tween 20 and Triton X 100 are certified "free of ethylen oxide and dioxan". They probably are traces from the synthesis of the poly(ethyleneglycol) residues present in the substance. I just wonder how that stuff should affect any usual lab application. Ethylene oxide should be immediately hydrolyzed by water to ethandiol, dioxan probably is a made of 2x ethylene oxide or a byproduct of ethylene oxide synthesis) and is water soluble, too. Maybe they are sort of toxic to cells (would you want to treat them with detergent anyway except lysing them?). Why should I be concerned about them as they only would occur in smallest traces (say: 0.1% in the detergent in a 0.1% detergent solution makes a 0.0001% solution which would be equivalent to 1 ppm) Any clues? Wo |
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