Saturday 20 October 2012
Alcohol
In case you're searching for ethyl alcohol to disinfect a wound, forget it, you won't find it. And people at a pharmacy will give you a weird look. I mean, alcohol is to get drunk, right? However, they'll gladly sell you some disinfectant based on methanol. I think that might explain a thing or two about the mental state of people around here.
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You should change your blog title. These aren't chronicles, these are rants!
ReplyDeleteAccording to Wikipedia:
ReplyDelete"Methanol ingested in large quantities [...]may cause blindness, coma, and death. Because of these toxic properties, methanol is frequently used as a denaturant additive for ethanol manufactured for industrial uses. This addition of methanol exempts industrial ethanol [...] from liquor excise taxation."
So it's only a way to escape taxes...