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Originally Posted by 5T4T1C
remember this chinese kid in science way back, he drank the ethanhol, like pure alcohol or some shit, good times
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most of that stuff in regular labs here is denatured with methanol (a poison) or phenol (another poison); so it's 95% ethanol (booze) and 5% other stuff.
Organic chemists use the real 100% stuff though, because the phenol or methanol would make byproducts in a synthesis reaction that uses ethanol; so their ethanol is safe to drink.