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Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, mpdickens <md30022@y...> wrote:
> > and lots of warnings about damage to brain and
> > nervous system from inhalation or absorption through
> > skin, cannot be made non-poisonous
> > etc., as well as extreme flammability.
>
> What you are describing sounds like what is sold in a
> hardware store in the paint section. Like muratic
> acid, it is composed of / manufactured from industrial
> waste products.
Do you have a weblink to this information?
Looking here:
http://www.syndel.com/msds/denatured_ethanol_msds.htmlI don't see anything to indicate it was made from industrial waste!
> You can, however, purchase denatured alcohol (Wood
> alcohol 70% by volume. It's diluted with h20 and
> nothing else. No additives, no industrial wastes) at a
> pharmacy. This grade of denatured alcohol is still
> posionous, but then again, so is isopropyl alcohol.
> For that matter, ethanol is also poisonious (Like all
> liquour and wine...) .
Ethanol is not poisonous except in the strictest sense. HOWEVER-
denatured is called that because it has methanol added, which -is-
toxic. That's why it's called denatured, they could not sell it
otherwise because it would be like selling bottles of rotgut whisky
from the hardware store. It's also called "White Lightnin'" in the
southern USA.
Steve