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Originally posted by MrSelfDestruct
Actually, duckduck, they don't add benzene. The preferred method of purifying alcohol is distillation. Distilling it normally will get nearly pure alcohol, but some water will remain. The only way to get it 100% water-free is to distill it over hot benzene. In this process, it picks up some of the benzene vapor, which is less harmful to the combustion process than water.
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or you could use ethylene glycol (antifreeze) in the distillation process. In industry, distillation is not widely used, its mostly done using membranes and whatnot due to the high energy costs in distillation ( its actually at LEAST 2 distillations if you use a 3rd compound like glycol)
yes... it is a BAD BAD idea to drink industrial ethanol. It's will definitely have been spiked with something that makes it uncomsumable to make it tax-exempt.....