Is carbon dioxide soluble in petroleum ether, and why?

I googled it, and I'm finding some forum posts that say no, but no authoritative reference.
CO2 is somewhat soluble in water (1.7 g/L at 20°C) and I understand that it's mostly NOT because it forms carbonic acid: it's just dissolved CO2 molecules. Why wouldn't the same thing happen in petroleum ether?
Has anyone tried putting petroleum ether in a SodaStream device?




Carbon dioxide is, in fact, **more soluble in nonpolar solvents than in water**.


From the [Wikipedia page on carbon dioxide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide): Solubility in water
**1.45 g/L** at 25 °C (77 °F), 100 kPa
(Alternative source: [CRC handbook](https://sites.chem.colostate.edu/diverdi/all_courses/CRC%20reference%20data/solubility%20of%20carbon%20dioxide%20in%20water.pdf). Solubility is about twice as much at 0°C.)


From [IUPAC, Solubility Data Series: Carbon Dioxide in Non-Aqueous Solvents at Pressures Less Than 200 kPa](https://srdata.nist.gov/solubility/IUPAC/SDS-50/SDS-50.pdf), chart on page 3: mole fraction of CO2 in hexane at 101.3 kPa, 300 K = **0.012**, which corresponds to 4 g/L.
(Solubility is only slightly (10-20%) higher at 0°C.)


So the forum posts I read were wrong.


As to why, I suppose it's sufficient to argue that CO2 is a nonpolar molecule, and like dissolves like.
  
(It's true because it's Latin: *Similia similibus solvuntur!* 😝)


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While $\ce{CO2}$ as a symmetric molecule has zero dipole moment, its 2 $\ce{C=O}$ bands do have dipole moment and are polar. 


Polar water molecules interact with the polar bonds what decreases $\ce{CO2(aq)}$ chemical potential and raises solubility of $\ce{CO2}$ some 2 orders above solubility of $\ce{O2}$ or $\ce{N2}$.


That does not happen in non polar solvents likes alkanes of petroether.


BTW, why would anybody put petroether in a soda stream ??


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