- Characteristics:
A clear, almost colourless or slightly yellow, viscid liquid, odour, very slight and characteristic taste at first bland, but afterwards slightly acrid.
- Solubility:
Soluble in 2.5 parts of ethanol (96%) soluble in chloroform and in ether, slightly soluble in petroleum spirit, miscible in all proportions with absolute ethanol and with glacial acetic acid.
- Optical Rotation:
+3.5 deg to + 6.0 deg - Acid Value
2.0 Max - Hydroxyl Value
Not less than 150 - Iodine Value
82 to 90 (iodine bromide method) - Peroxide value
Not more than 5.0 - Refractive Index
1.477 to 1.481
- Relative density
0.958 to 0.969 - Saponification Value
176 to 187 - Unsaponifable matter
Not more than 0.8% w/w - Foreign fatty substances A.
A mixture of 2 ml of the oil and 8 ml of ethanol (96%) is clear.
- Foreign fatty substances B.
Shake 10.0 ml with 20.0 ml of petroleum spirit (boiling range 60 deg to 80 deg) and allow to separate. The volume of the lower layer is not less than 16.0 ml
- Light Absorption
Absorbance of a 1% w/v solution in ethanol (96%) at the maximum At 269 nm, not more than 1.0 - Moisture Content
0.3% max -
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