Something to lighten the mood

[lousymusician]

This was the best deal I could find on the web for food grade.

Thanks to the metric system mixing is easy. 700ml alc. + 300ml water. 😀

Water and ethanol form an azeotrope, so simple distillation only gets you to 95% ethanol, or 190 proof. Back when i was taking my college chem and microbiology classes we were taught that benzene was added to 190 proof alcohol which was then re-distilled to get to absolute (100%) ethanol, and since benzene is carcinogenic drinking absolute ethanol was verboten. The 190 proof stuff was safe. Not that we would have ever drunk that...

So how do they get 200 proof food grade alcohol? Different, food safe ternary additive?

 

[WBS]

I don't know.

 

[TheGimp]

It doesn't stay 100% alcohol long. As soon as you open it, it starts absorbing water out of the air.

 

[Cal Weldon]

dave

I can't imagining you taking worse pictures of that wall. Next walk, maybe morning shots instead of the afternoon? 😉

200 proof ethyl alcohol

I think you're going to get comments about that.

Hard to get that high given how quickly water from the air gets sucked into it.

I had a feeling.

Do you add anything like aloe as a moisturizing agent for your hands?

No, I don't actually make anything like that, it was a joke. This is the something to lighten the mood thread. I use either isopropanol or methyl hydrate that I have plenty of. Splash it all around and hope some soaks into my skin. My day goes better that way and my wife can never complain.

I have found that I’m becoming more food-centric lately, looking forward to meals more enthusiastically than usual.

Ya, no sheep dip batman. I used to look forward to sex. Now, since I am all worn out, it's a steak and a hair cut to turn this guy's crank.

 

[WBS]

It doesn't stay 100% alcohol long. As soon as you open it, it starts absorbing water out of the air.

Okay. I'll just add less water the next time I make my 70% blend since hydroscopy is helping out!

 

[Cal Weldon]

No need to add anything unless you are looking to conserve.

 

[WBS]

Except that 100% evaporates very quickly and optimal contact to kill the virus is 20 sec. minimum. 70% sticks around longer and is still strong enough to do the job.

 

[Cal Weldon]

kill the virus

I understand the 70% principle and since there's no such thing as 'killing' a virus can we please go back to lightening the mood? 🙂

 

[WBS]

I stand corrected. Deactivate?

 

[tsmith1315]

can we please go back to lightening the mood? 🙂

 

[planet10]

Except that 100% evaporates very quickly and optimal contact to kill the virus is 20 sec. minimum. 70% sticks around longer and is still strong enough to do the job.

if we are talking abou tCovid-19, high test send sit into a protective mode and doe snot work that well, 70% “melts” the protien skin and the virus becomes unhinged. Not as well as soap thou.

dave

 

[Cal Weldon]

Like any virus, you attack the lipid layer, you initiate the decomposition. Soap works well on fats, exposing the protein, alcohol does too, soap is a little better because of the warmth and the ability to rinse it away.

 

[Cal Weldon]

tsmith, I like. 🙂

 

[planet10]

 

[Galu]

Perhaps a photo of a big tube will help lighten up proceedings?

It certainly makes me smile!

 

[Cal Weldon]

Yowsa, that's a beauty.

 

[Gnobuddy]

...back to lightening the mood...

Watching a squirrel doing what it does normally always lightens my mood. Hearing about kind people who rescued an animal in distress and gave it a home also lightens my mood. So here's a double whammy: YouTube


-Gnobuddy

 

[billshurv]

BBC Two - Springwatch, 2020, Fox cubs bounce on a trampoline! hope this link works outside UK. Fox cub on a trampoline.

 

[Cal Weldon]

So here's a double whammy:

I watched one so very similar to that yesterday on TV. They are fun to watch.

 

[Gnobuddy]

...hope this link works outside UK.

It worked for me. Thank you for posting it!

-Gnobuddy