{"id":247101,"date":"2018-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ionscience.com\/news\/the-basis-of-benzene\/"},"modified":"2018-01-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T00:00:00","slug":"the-basis-of-benzene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ionscience.com\/in\/news\/the-basis-of-benzene\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basics of Benzene &#8211; download your FREE Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; column_margin=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_tablet=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_phone=&#8221;default&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; row_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; row_border_radius_applies=&#8221;bg&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; gradient_direction=&#8221;left_to_right&#8221; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_tablet=&#8221;inherit&#8221; column_padding_phone=&#8221;inherit&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; gradient_direction=&#8221;left_to_right&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<h3>ION Science has published a new, FREE Guide; The Basics of Benzene<\/h3>\n<p>The Basics of Benzene &#8211; The Guide is the first in our series detailing everything you need to know about Benzene and how to effectively deal with this hazardous chemical within your working environment.<\/p>\n<p>In this first Guide you will learn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What Benzene is<\/li>\n<li>The properties of a Benzene ring<\/li>\n<li>Where Benzene is used<\/li>\n<li>What the hazards of Benzene exposure are<\/li>\n<li>How Benzene can be detected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whilst toxic gasses such as hydrogen sulphide and carbon monoxide are a major concern because they pose an immediate (acute) danger to life, long term exposure to relatively low level concentrations of other gasses or vapours such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are of equal importance because of the chronic illnesses that can result from that ongoing exposure. Thinking back to your school days and science, organic means the chemistry of carbon based compounds, which are substances that results from a combination of two or more different chemical elements. The atoms of the different elements are held together by chemical bonds that are difficult to break. These bonds form as a result of the sharing or exchange of electrons among the atoms. Some VOCs are hydrocarbons but not all hydrocarbons are <a href=\"https:\/\/ionscience.com\/in\/news\/what-is-a-volatile-organic-compound-voc-gas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VOCs<\/a>. The latter have a significant vapour pressure at normal ambient temperature which means they evaporate (volatilise) at low temperatures so they can easily enter the body through normal breathing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\">Benzene, also known as benzol, is one such common VOC, identified by its unique numerical CAS2 number 71-42-2.<\/div>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\">It is also a hydrocarbon as you can see from its chemical formula C6H6 represented diagrammatically as a ring.<\/div>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\">It belongs to the BTEX family (Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, Xylene) of so called aromatics because of their sweet, pleasant smell.<\/div>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\">Benzene is the simplest such aromatic hydrocarbon and it was the first one named as such, the nature of its bonding was first recognised in the 19th century.<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Guide is the first in our series detailing everything you need to know about Benzene and how to effectively deal with this hazardous chemical within your working environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":247102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[750],"tags":[20],"class_list":{"0":"post-247101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-company-news"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Basics of Benzene - download your FREE Guide - Ion Science UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ION Science has published a new, FREE Guide; The Basics or Benzene. 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