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Isoamyl Alcohol Uses

Technical

Isoamyl alcohol is good solvent and diluent

for printing inks, lacquers, gum, inhibitors

and hydraulic fluids. It is used as hydraulic

and lube oil additives, as frothing agents in

mineral dressing application

DNA Etraction

!outinely used in molecular biology,

especially in the purification of DNA. It is

"idely used in con#unction "ith phenol and

chloroform $%&'%(') phenol' chloroform'

isoamyl alcohol* for the removal of proteins

from the nucleic acid solutions by etraction.

+ood

Isoamyl alcohol is used for estimation of

fat in milk and milk products. It is used

as solvent for the preparation of synthetic

apricot, banana, cherry, greengage, malt,

orange, plum, and "hisky flavors.

harmaceutical

-sed as the initial ra" material for the

production of a number of drug

preparations' barbamil, validol, bromisoval,

corvalol and amyl nitrite.

Reference

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