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DIMETHYL sulphoxide is a polar solvent which is miscible with many organic solvents including toluene. It is an excellent solvent for polysaccharides, proteins and macromolecules generally. Though we expected that it would be a quencher we thought that its solvent properties might make it useful for holding water-soluble substances in solution in liquid scintillators.
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WRIGHT, E., MILLAR, K. Use of Dimethyl Sulphoxide in Liquid Scintillation Counting. Nature 208, 889 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/208889a0
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