So - is that a DIFFERENT blind, sick and demented from the kind you get from
drinking the stuff from the bottom shelf?
-----Original Message-----
From Wiedemeyer <boxweed at thebest.net>
To: Charles D. Sorkin <cdsorkin@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: spridgets list <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, January 07, 2000 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: denatured alcohol
>And the chemical that is added to denatured ethanol to make it
non-drinkable
>is methanol, a one-carbon alcohol which, if you drink it, will make you
>blind, sick, and demented.
>
>Bob
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Charles D. Sorkin <cdsorkin@ix.netcom.com>
>To: Spridget List <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Date: Friday, January 07, 2000 3:08 PM
>Subject: Re: denatured alcohol
>
>
>>Denatured alcohol (of any specification) is regular ethanol to which is
>>added any of a long list of chemicals whose only purpose is to make you
>>severely ill without killing you. From reports I've heard, the effect is
>so
>>horrible as to make you wish you were dead. The additives are otherwise
>>inert, so that it won't affect industrial applications or chemical
>>reactions. The point is so that laboratories can keep it on the shelf
>>without worrying about boozing employees stealing it. And also to avoid
>>excise taxes on alcohol for consumption.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Charles
>>B. S. Chemistry (I know quite a bit of BC about chemistry)
>>'74 Midget
>>'68 Sprite
>>cdsorkin@ix.netcom.com
>>Bloomfield, NJ
>
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