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- Location: Western Kentucky
My one suspect is that samplers have contaminated their 1+1 HCl with gasoline from a fillup on the route, and the benzene is forming chlorobenzene in the presence of the acid. Anyone else think that could possibly happen? I only saw something similar once before when we had methanol contamination of the acid and it formed chloromethane.
Are there any other uses of chlorobenzene I might be overlooking that would cause contamination?