I'll never tell!
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From Elliott, Patrick <patrick.elliott at attws.com>
To: 'Wiedemeyer' <boxweed@thebest.net>
Date: Friday, January 07, 2000 6:35 PM
Subject: RE: denatured alcohol
>Is this from experience??
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Wiedemeyer [mailto:boxweed@thebest.net]
>Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 3:08 PM
>To: Charles D. Sorkin
>Cc: spridgets list
>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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