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What if i want to use just methanol and ethanol to make a methylated spirit?
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What is the most suitable investigation question to investigate evaporation using distilled water ethanol acetone and methylated spirit?
The first investigation question is, why are you comparing the evaporation rates of ethanol and methylated spirit? One of the most important things to know about methylated spirit is it's made so it can't be demethylated. This for several reasons, largely because alcohol beverage taxes are not levied on methylated spirit as they are on drinkable ethanol; if you could demethylate spirit then people would never buy booze, they'd just buy methylated spirit and fix it. One of their safeguards is to use an agent that evaporates at the same rate as ethanol (methanol, usually, which is where the name used in England comes from). This keeps people from distilling it.
Is alcohol a neurotoxin?
"Alchohol" is just a subgroup of organic chemicals, and yes some are very toxic, also to neurons. But assume you mean ethanol, and yes it is toxic, not as toxic as methanol and ethylene glycol, but much more toxic than most other drugs of abuse. When you take other substances you ingest say 100 mg = 0.1 grams, when you drink 10 bears, you ingest 10 x 12,000 mg of ethanol. Just that fact puts an enormous load on your liver and liver damage is indirectly neurotoxic, but as ethanol passes the Blood Brain Barrier a quite nasty organic solvent are let loose on the innermost sanctum of your brain and no cells can survive prolonged exposure to ethanol (even yeast cells die when the concentration of ethanol reaches around 14.5& volume/volume) and that includes neurons, so yes, ethanol is definitely neurotoxic.
What type of drug is ethanol?
According to Wikipedia, it's a psychoactive drug. This was found very easily by just searching "ethanol" in google. It's the very first result. Wikipedia - Ethanol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol Wikipedia - Psychoactive Drug: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoactive_drug
Is Isopropyl Technical Industrial Alcohol the same thing?
Not just isopropanol. Methanol also belongs to industrial alcohol
How do you extract atropine from angels trumpet?
just make tea By grindings the seeds , pods , leaves and flowers then evaporat all the water away by heat the the up on a gas stover or elect stove it shoult leave and oily rein this is your extract .. If u want u could use aclchohole like : Ethanol /180 proffe wood grain alchohole/Any kind of solvent You could even use methylated spirts Make sure You Boil and evaporat all the solvent .
What is the most suitable investigation question to investigate evaporation using distilled water ethanol acetone and methylated spirit?
The first investigation question is, why are you comparing the evaporation rates of ethanol and methylated spirit? One of the most important things to know about methylated spirit is it's made so it can't be demethylated. This for several reasons, largely because alcohol beverage taxes are not levied on methylated spirit as they are on drinkable ethanol; if you could demethylate spirit then people would never buy booze, they'd just buy methylated spirit and fix it. One of their safeguards is to use an agent that evaporates at the same rate as ethanol (methanol, usually, which is where the name used in England comes from). This keeps people from distilling it.
Can you distill methylated spirits in a reflux still to produce pure ethanol?
I was thinking about this too...Methanol has a BP of ~ 64*C, ethanol has a BP of ~ 78*CWhen you run a batch through a refulx still you disgard the head (as metho burns off first)Methylated spirit is only a about 5% methanol, so theres not much to remove anwyay, run it through twice and discard 2 heads if need be.Taste it to tell when its methanol or ethanol (only a drop, its harmless), methanol has a real tang, wheras ethanol just tastes warm.Hope this helpsAnother user answer:Technically yes you can if you have fine enough temperature control, and to be sure multi-distillation passes would be advised.There are usually more additives than just methanol you want to remove, you want to boil off te methanol first, making sure the temp is accurate, just a few degrees under ethanol boiling point would do - I would do this for a long time.Then you also need to distill the ethanol off alone, at under 79 degrees, Isopropyl Alcohol is another additive and its boiling point is 82.4c, there is another additive which is 79.2 which is butanone, though its not a health risk, you still need to technically remove it for a pure ethanol product.There's others but theyre outside either range and not hazzardous like methanol, usually foul flavours and stuff that promotes vomitting, and they should be removed via careful temperature distillation on either side.Even so, you shouldn't try to distill methylated spirits for human consumption, there are a few news reports of people trying this and dying."We present the case report of a 47-year-old man fatally poisoned by ingestion of a home-distilled liquor produced from 'methylated spirits' containing 5% methanol and 90% ethanol. Classical signs of severe methanol poisoning, including altered conscious state, shock and profound acidosis were manifest at the time of presentation. Despite an ethanol infusion and haemodialysis he was declared brain dead 36 h after arrival at the emergency department."http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120102452/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
What things are put in alcohol to make you drunk?
Alcoholic spirits ... It's the fermenting process that actually creates the level of alcohol in those beverages. ---------------- The chemical produced by fermentation of sugar is C2H5OH commonly known as Ethanol (or surgical spirit). This is the chemical that makes you drunk and if taken in excess, over a period of time, it will damage your liver. However, Ethanol is just one of the types of compound called Alcohols (they all have an - 'OH' group) another readily available Alcohol is CH3OH commonly called Methanol (or methylated spirit). Methanol is more poisonous than Ethanol which is why it is dyed purple when sold. Home made 'moonshine' is frequently a mixture of Ethanol and Methanol.
Is it safe to clean cuts with methylated spirit?
Define "safe"."Methylated spirits" is an archaic term for what's usually and more properly referred to as "denatured alcohol". Denatured alcohol is ethanol that has been rendered undrinkable (and usually poisonous, by which I mean "even more poisonous than ethanol", since ethanol itself is somewhat toxic) by the addition of toxic or noxious compounds. Traditionally the toxic compound of choice was methanol, which is significantly more toxic than ethanol itself.So, to recap: you've got a substance that is itself toxic, and which has been made even more toxic by the addition of other compounds. And your question is whether or not it's safe to pour this into an open wound.(That said: not all denaturing formulas use compounds that are actually poisonous; some of them just use compounds that taste really bad. Also, you're not hooking up an IV bag and pouring in a couple liters, you're pouring a small amount over the wound. If methylated spirits were the only thing I had and the choice was between that or not cleaning the wound at all, then using the methylated spirits is probably the safer of the two choices.)
How does methanol impact the environment?
Did you mean Ethanol? IF so... Ethanol doesn't help the environment, just limits the use of fossil fuels. This Ethanol is a energy source similar to gasoline but is made from the Surplus Supplies from farms in the great plains. So in other words, it is just n alternative resource.
What does the term fuel mean?
Flex fuel is a blend of gasoline and either ethanol or methanol. This combination of fuel is stored in one tank, just as traditional gas. An example of this fuel is E85, which is 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline.
Why methanol gives better yield than ethanol?
I do believe that since methanol (CH3OH) is a smaller molecule than ethanol (C2H5OH), and alcohol loses its polarity (and its ability to dissolve polar molecules as well as its own miscibility in water, also a polar molecule) at around 5 carbons or so, then it would follow that perhaps methanol is better at grabbing onto those polar compounds you'd like to extract. Ethanol usually works just fine for long term extraction, and provides a product we can consume.
What does the term flex fuel mean?
Flex fuel is a blend of gasoline and either ethanol or methanol. This combination of fuel is stored in one tank, just as traditional gas. An example of this fuel is E85, which is 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline.
Can ethanol be carcinogenic?
YES! The American Cancer Society has listed ethanol in "Group 1: Carcinogenic to humans" and this is part of "known, tested and tried" group/highest ranking group of known carcinogens. ***** The IARC (part of the World Health Organisation) classify "Ethanol in alcoholic beverages" as a Group 1 carcinogen. This leads me to suspect that's it's included for political, rather than medical, reasons. They've 'denormalised' the smokers with the aid of junk science. Now it's the turn of those of you who enjoy a glass of wine or beer.
Why are methyl alcohol and ethylene glycol toxic to humans?
Anything that enters your mouth gets broken down into basic products that the body can use for energy - or get rid of. This is called metabolism. Ethanol (alcohol you drink), methanol (same thing as methyl alcohol) (wood alcohol) and ethylene glycol (anti-freeze) are all processed in the same way in the body. Ethylene glycol and methanol when they are processed are broken down into really bad products that are poisonous to the body. Ethanol (drinking alcohol) just gets broken down into products that cause a hangover. If someone has ingested ethylene glycol or methanol, making them drink ethanol would delay the creation of those bad/poisonous products that are created in the body - and they definitely have to go to the hospital to get rid of the ethylene glycol or methanol in a different way then there body processing it and creating those poisonous products.
What is the boiling point of alcohol?
There are many different kinds of alcohol, and each has its own boiling point. Here are just the first two: Methyl alcohol, (methanol) - B.P. = 64.7 °C, 148.5 F° (337.8 K) Ethyl alcohol (ethanol) - B.P. = 78.4 °C, 173.1 F° (351.6 K)
What happens when you mix mineral spirits and water?
Methylated spirits is a mixture of at least two things: ethanol and methanol. If you get it in Germany they put something especially evil smelling in it to make sure you don't want to drink it. But let's confine ourselves to the product sold in the US (where it's called "denatured alcohol") and assume it's just ethanol and methanol. Either alcohol combines with atmospheric oxygen to produce at least two new chemicals: carbon dioxide and water. If there's not enough oxygen in the area for it to burn properly, carbon monoxide will also be produced. You will also get a significant amount of heat - which is why you light this product in the first place.
