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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] ipa

From: "Leon Heller" <leon_heller@...>
Date: 2003-05-18

>From: Stefan Trethan <stefan_trethan@...>
>Reply-To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
>To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] ipa, ethyl alcohol
>Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 08:48:35 +0200
>
>i am aware of the fact they are not the same.
>maybe my english is too bad but i only wondered if denaturated alcohol
>(called spiritus here) is
>ethanol. if yes, why does steve say denaturated alcohol dissolves plastic
>and i have not seen it doing
>that.
>so i assumed it must be a difference between denaturated alcohol and
>spiritus (ethanol).
>if there is no difference i wantet to ask which plastics are in danger
>(because i assumed all are save).

Denatured alcohol contains methanol, to stop people drinking it. The
methanol in it might be more likely to dissolve some plastics.

Leon
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