Yes! The stuff on the bottom shelf has lye in it, which is what they use to
"cure" the stuff Frank got from the kid in NC.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From Kent J. Miller <Bushwacker4 at prodigy.net>
To: Spridgets <Spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, January 07, 2000 7:33 PM
Subject: Fw: denatured alcohol
>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@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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