at 95%, it’s just ethanol
I’ve had 190 proof Everclear before. it just burns.
Yeah, the stuff I clean with or defrost the car with, has 96% written on it. (Edit: And “Everclear” sounds like something to be used on a car windshield…)
That’s probably isopropanol, not ethanol. Different types of alcohol. You can get lower-purity isopropanol (70% is pretty common).
It’s ethanol. The same denatured alcohol my grandma used to do the final step of window-cleaning with. I have Isopropyl as well, but I use that sparingly since I can’t just grab another bottle of that at the supermarket. So for me it’s simple ethanol for the cleaning and I’ll dump it in the windscreen wiper tank of the car (mixed with water). And the Isopropyl is for cleaning electronics and PCBs. And I’d have to look it up, but I think it’s way more pure than 70%… It evaporates from the PCBs after a few seconds with no residue… The ethanol from the supermarket doesn’t do that. And I wouldn’t expect 30% of water to evaporate that quickly either.
Isopropyl really is a godsend, though. Someone will dump a glass of apple juice or Coca Cola into my TV remote control… And after 15 minutes of ranting about how no engineer uses screws anymore, I’ll somehow get the thing open, and thanks to the alcohol it’s good as new a few minutes later.
Burns… A hole in your stomach. If you dont mix it with something to dilute it you’re probably gonna have a bad time.
I remember walking around campus in the middle of the night with a pint of EC. I didn’t drink a ton of it, but it was kind of nice on a winter night.
the mixup is that actual distillery gets 96% (192 proof) azeotrope during distillation (fuel and some other specific uses can bring it up to 100%) then dilutes it with water to 40%. technically, it’s correct
Yep. Distilled to 95% then cut to 40%. That’s why they’re so often flavorless. The slop here is the missing information to make this make sense in the context of the paragraph.
Oh so the leniency is because the regulations are lenient? You don’t say
Everclear and Red 190 are 95% abv vodkas.
Today I learned there’s weird 16th century units for alcohol as well 😆 For reference, it’s supposed to have 70 to 80. And a hundred means a beverage can be set on fire at a defined temperature.
