Food additives data book - wordpres

Gases 560
NAME: Argon
CATEGORY: Packaging gas
FORMULA: Ar
MOLECULAR MASS: 39.948
PROPERTIES AND APPEARANCE: Colourless, odourless, tasteless, inert gas
BOILING POINT IN °C AT VARIOUS -185.7
PRESSURES (INCLUDING 760 mm Hg):
MELTING RANGE IN °C: -189.2
DENSITY AT 20°C (AND OTHER 1.784
TEMPERATURES) IN g/l:
SOLUBILITY % AT VARIOUS TEMPERATURE/pH COMBINATIONS:
in water: @ 0°C 5.6 @ 20°C 3.36 @ 50°C 3.0 @ 100°C Soluble
in vegetable oil: @ 20°C Soluble @ 50°C Soluble @ 100°C Soluble
in sucrose solution: @ 10% Soluble @ 40% Soluble @ 60% Soluble
in sodium chloride solution: @ 5% Soluble @ 10% Soluble @ 15% Soluble
in ethanol solution: @ 5% Soluble @ 20% Soluble @ 95% Soluble @ 100% Soluble
in propylene glycol: @ 20°C Soluble @ 50°C Soluble @ 100°C Soluble
REFERENCE: Merck Index, Twelfth Edition (1996) Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA.