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How do you tell how much alcohol a liquid contains? You can measure its density, but in the wild west you knew when they'd been watering back the whiskey because if you mixed it with gunpowder it wouldn't light.

If you mix it with gunpowder and can get the gunpowder to burn you know its at least 50% alcohol by volume. This became know as 100 proof.

30% abv = 60 proof and so on.

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