Can I use a plastic turkey baster to suck up hexane without it melting?
extremely tough problem. research on to google. just that will help!
You asked the question correctly Will hexane dissolve plastic? - and then you used the term melting Melting implies a change of state from sold to liquid upon application of heat - something dissolving and something melting are NOT the same. Do not confuse the terminology! Also, be very careful about the term plastic. There are huge numbers of different synthetic polymers all of which can be regarded as plastics and all of which have specific properties. Simply referring to plastic is a bit like saying we're having food for dinner tonight ! In the case of hexane, however, it is relatively innocuos and doesn't act as a solvent for most common synthetic polymers under normal conditions. So you should be OK, although a glass pipette would be preferable!
