Ionic liquid
salt in the liquid state, largely made of ions and short-lived ion pairs (while ordinary liquids such as water and gasoline are predominantly made of electrically neutral molecules) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An ionic liquid is a liquid made mostly of ions. The term is sometimes used to just mean room-temperature ionic liquids, which are liquid at below 100 °C (212 °F). Molten salts are another type of ionic liquid.[1]
Ionic liquids are sometimes called "designer solvents", as an ionic liquid be prepared with specific different cations and anions to produce liquids with specific chemical and physical properties.[2]
The first room-temperature ionic liquid was ethylammonium nitrate.[1]
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