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From: nose@nbires.UUCP (Steve Dunn)
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Subject: Re: prevention of hangovers
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> by lab alcohol, you don't mean
> methyl alcohol, but grain?  wouldn't that mean if you drank 190
> proof grain, you'd be home free?  too bad it's impossible to get
> 100% pure alcohol!  your organic chemist friends must have a good
> sense of humor.
> 

There are several things around labs that might be called lab alcohol. They
include denatured ethanol which is ethanol with a poison added to it so people
won't drink it. There is also what I believe is called absolute ethanol. This
has had all the water removed from it and is the closest thing to
chemically pure ethanol you're likely to find. Unfortunately the impurities 
it does contain are toxic, don't drink this stuff!!!!. Finally there is just
plain ethanol with some percentage of water. This you can drink.
Just be sure you get the right stuff!! Its been a good while since I've 
worked in a lab so I may not have gotten this quite right. In a word, the
point is "BEWARE".

                -Steve "Chainsaw" Dunn