Ionic liquid

An ionic liquid is a liquid made mostly of ions. The term is sometimes used to just mean room-temperature ionic liquids, which are liquid at below 100 °C (212 °F). Molten salts are another type of ionic liquid.[1]

Ionic liquids are sometimes called "designer solvents", as an ionic liquid be prepared with specific different cations and anions to produce liquids with specific chemical and physical properties.[2]

The first room-temperature ionic liquid was ethylammonium nitrate.[1]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. "Ionic liquid". Compendium of Chemical Terminology Internet edition.
  2. ↑ Kaur, Gagandeep; Kumar, Harsh; Singla, Meenu (2022). "Diverse applications of ionic liquids: A comprehensive review". Journal of Molecular Liquids. 351 118556. doi:10.1016/j.molliq.2022.118556.
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