Talk:Ethylbenzene

In Popular culture
Should this have a pop culture section? 96.240.169.29 (talk) 03:39, 22 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Ethylbenzene in pop culture? Where? JohnnyTopQuark (talk) 13:58, 12 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Videogame Portal, one of the ingredients of the elusive cake: "Fish shaped ethylbenzene." nftaDaedalus (talk) 12:47, 16 May 2011 (UTC)


 * That sort of nerdy microtrivia would add nothing to an encyclopaedia. 109.157.79.50 (talk) 01:00, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Ethylbenzene odor
The very last sentence:

"Unlike its isomer, xylene, ethylbenzene has a very irritating odor." —Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnnyTopQuark (talk • contribs) 14:06, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

I am putting a dubious tag by this one. I work around ethylbenzene almost everyday and it smells really good to me. Like toluene except a little sweeter and less "biting". A smooth, sweet, toluene smell, if you will. So my point is, this statement is at best a minority opinion. I get the feeling that the person made this up. I don't know why. I could speculate but, once is enough for today.


 * I also work with it in an organic analytical laboratory and I think it has an unpleasant penetrating smell when working with it in pure form (>99.9%) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.159.84.252 (talk) 19:30, 20 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I work with it in a lab as well and I can tell you that, unless you think toluene, benzene and the xylenes smell bad, you are lying if you say ethylbenzene smells bad. It smells good to me.  Have you actually ever opened a bottle of ethylbenzene?  Maybe someone is using the wrong chemical in place of it?  Also, your prose makes me think you are not a chemist.  "In pure form"?  I too work with it "in pure form" (99.97%)76.125.80.145 (talk) 20:39, 21 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I think that if you were a chemist, you would be familiar with the referral of high purity reagents as being in "pure form"; google it, its common in chemical literature. Yes, I have attended university and am "a chemist".  And while working under the fume hood with pure form ethylbenzene (fresh from Sigma-Aldrich), I found it to have a foul smell.  I actually found benzene to have a rather sweet smell with toluene and the xylenes being in between.  Ethylbenzene being described as “smooth and sweet” smelling is simply untrue, and this is based on my firsthand laboratory experience with the stuff.


 * First, allow me to apologize for my caustic tone previously. I don't know what was wrong with me at that time.  I do believe that you have smelled ethylbenzene but you must have an unusual response to the smell.  I have questioned other people in my lab about its smell (and even did a blind test between it and toluene) and most could just barely detect a difference.  It actually smells good to me.  This is probably just a genetic difference (e.g. some people like the smell of gasoline and others don't).  I think you will find, however, that if you ask your coworkers they will say that it has a smell very similar to that of toluene and that the smell is not even close to being "disagreeable" unless you are the type of person that doesn't like solvent odors in the first place.  Is there anyone else who can weigh in on this? JohnnyTopQuark (talk) 05:45, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Why does "phenethyl" redirect here?
Not mentioned in article. 109.157.79.50 (talk) 01:00, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I re-aimed phenethyl to phenethyl alcohol, where the term is explained. Thank you for catching the problem.--Smokefoot (talk) 02:20, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

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