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How exactly does a sodium carbonate solution wash clean the naphtha of NaOH?

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godisenergy

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Howdy! So I know that a little bit of NaOH gets dissolved into the naphtha layers after the basified pulls in an A/B extraction scheme, but how exactly does a wash of sodium carbonate solution (like in vovin's tek) clear NaOH from the naphtha? Does anyone know the chemical mechanism behind this phenomenon? Thx!
 
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