Solvents

Solvents are the substances that are used to dissolve the solutes used in the formulation. These solutes may be solids, liquids, or gaseous in nature. Thus, solvents are used to get a solution upon interacting the solute with a suitable solvent. Naphtha, any of various volatile, highly flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures used chiefly as solvents and diluents and as raw materials for conversion to gasoline. The main uses of petroleum naphtha fall into the general areas of (i) precursor to gasoline and other liquid fuels, (ii) solvents (diluents) for paints, (iii) dry-cleaning solvents, (iv) solvents for cutback asphalts, (v) solvents in rubber industry, and (vi) solvents for industrial extraction processes