Is xylene and methanol miscible or immiscible?
they are miscible. There are studies in the scientific literature on the variation of volume and enthalpy over the full range of concentrations of xylene and methanol.
It is true that methanol is very polar, and that xylene is not polar. However, miscibility is much more complicated that that. Compounds with aromatic rings like xylene have a weak hydrogen-bonding interaction with alcohols, and methanol can self-associate into dimers and multimers in low polarity solutions. It often depends greatly on the size and shape of the molecules, in addition to polarity and hydrogen bonding.
immiscible, xylene is non-polar methanol is extremely polar no way dude, check for yourself. Methanol is extremely polar. I’m a molecular biologist with a minor in chem. That’s why when you make denatured 70% ethanol (w/ methanol in it) it mixes well. That’s because both water and alkane alchohols are extremely polar.
