Teddysad wrote:Technofreax wrote:If you buy Methylated Spirits in Supermarket or hardware and check the label you will find it says 95% Ethanol.
I believe they have taken out the 30% Methyl Alcohol & Pyredine ( colour/ bittering agent) so the meth drinkers don't poison themselves and the manufacturer doesn't get hit with a manslaughter charge. :teasing-tease:
I suggest you change your beliefs.
It is the other 5% which is the methyl alcohol and bittering agent - that is more than sufficient to make the methylated spirits a diabolical and poisonous concoction .
There have been many attempts to separate the Methyl etc but once mixed in the stuff is poison and potentially lethal..
Mate you are just plain wrong
If it was methanol the msds would say it was methanol, thats what the damn thing is for
There are only 3 constituents to metho and i will list them as they occour
Ethanol, water, bitrex (denatonium benzoate see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatonium)
If an additional
unsafe thing was in it it would be in the msds or someone would be getting sued every time somebody drank the stuff
Now if you do some research there is a complex event happening when you denature ethanol with bitrex, bitrex has a very similar vapour pressure to EtOH and as a result will vapourise around the same temperature points, making it quite a complex thing to seperate without a dual phase/ion exchange approach
The last thing that makes the quoted post by teddysad ridiculous is the fact EtOH is not anhydrous (void of water) and to exist and be exposed to the atmosphere it must exist as an azeotrope with around 5% water. You can dry it though fractional distillation under an inert environment or a desiccating agent like microsieves but i dont think you would ever want to or need to.
You can drink metho, you just have to have nuts because bitrex is gross and detable very prominently on the palate though several folds of dilution (ie <1% EtOH) and you wont seperate it without expensive things! if you want to give it a try make a negroni! I have a bar tender mate who is also an engineer that made a serious of youtube videos on using metho in ritzy cocktails.
He was trying to start #diggeres4thediggers on anzac day this year!