Gary wrote
> James,
> The following was taken from a forum at www.taxidermy.net that I found
> running a google search. If you can't find it at a hardware, paint or home
> improvement store maybe your chemists can recognize it by the chemical makeup.
> I've used the stuff for years for a variety of cleaning jobs other than on
> cameras but was surprised to find it has applications in taxidermy. Maybe
> it'd
> help preserve the aging OM equipment. A quick search found several Material
> Safety Data Sheets that listed various additives but Ethyl Alcohol and Methyl
> Alcohol seem to be the key ones.
>
>
> "Denatured alcohol is just grain alcohol (Ethanol) to which ingredients are
> added to make it toxic and to exempt it from ATF controls and liquor taxes.
> The
> composition of Denatured Alcohol is:
>
> 82.9 0.000000E+00thanol (Ethyl Alcohol)
> 00.2 0.000000E+00thylacetate
> 16.4% Methanol (Methyl alcohol)
> 00.5% MEK
>
> The poisonous additive is the Methanol and the other ingredients are
> stabilizers. So, you see, Denatured alcohol is just a combination of grain
> (ethanol) wood (methanol) alcohols thus rendering the argument over which to
> use
> rather moot."
As far as I know, MEK is Methyl ethyl ketone, a component of two-pot glues,
fibre-glass etc, and from the labels I've seen is a serious poison.
Brian
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