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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 26.
Published in final edited form as: Q Rev Biophys. 2015 Nov;48(4):437–444. doi: 10.1017/S0033583515000086

Table 2.

Physical properties of different electrospray solventsa

Solvent Vapor pressure at 20 °C (torr) Boiling point (°C) Surface tension (mN m−1)
Water 17·5 100 72
Methanol 87·9 65 22
ACN 72·8 81 29
DMF 2·7 152 37
m-NBAb <1·9 175–180 50
a

Data taken from (Lide, 1996).

b

Data taken from (Banerjee, 2013).