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From: grunwald@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Production of methanol: where?
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Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 10:37:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 29 10:37:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU!grunwald    Jan 29 09:37:00 1986


According to some relatives who used to make moonshine for a living, it is
possible to accidently introduce methenol into an alcoholic beverage during
the distillation process. Allegedly, some methenol is created during
fermentation of corn, and the care taken in distillation causes it to not
be included in the final product. The point of evaporation for ethenol and
methenol differ by some small number of degrees.

But then again, they weren't chem majors either.

However, I do know that most lab alchohol has been denatured with phenel-
thaline (sp?), which gives it a bad taste and causes you to get the runs.