2007-01-27 04:28:22 · 7 answers · asked by mohit arora 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
Denatured alcohol is a poison.
2007-01-27 04:30:58 · answer #1 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Depends on your context. "Alcohol" includes methanol, ethanol, propanol...basically anything with the suffix -ol is an alcohol.
"Denatured Spirits" is a term for ethanol that's been adulterated in order to make it unfit (poisonous) to drink. Generally, methanol and jet fuel (JP-5) are added to denature ethanol.
Technically, all alcohols are poisonous. That's why they work so well as preservatives. However, ethanol has the least harmful effects and side effects of them. Methanol breaks down in the liver to create compounds that attack the nervous system...hence "going blind." Propanol (usually see as rubbing alcohol, or isopropanol) also destroys the liver and other parts of the body from the compounds that it breaks down into. If you read the safety information on either of these chemicals, you'll find that the treatment for accidental ingestion is to "administer dilute ethanol orally" which translates to "drink some booze." What happens there is that the liver is busy breaking down the toxic alcohols and when the booze shows up to be processed, its by-products dilute the nasty compounds from the toxic alcohol and their effects are diminished.
2007-01-27 18:29:19 · answer #2 · answered by Trid 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It can denature ones spirit
2007-01-27 12:30:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many types of alcohol. Don't drink denatured alcohol unless you want to go blind & die.
2007-01-27 12:33:23 · answer #4 · answered by smilindave1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Were you intoxicated when you asked this or did you just forget to use spell check?
2007-01-27 12:30:37 · answer #5 · answered by sl6970 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
is this an oxymoron
2007-01-27 12:33:09 · answer #6 · answered by pops 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No?
2007-01-27 12:30:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋