Talk:Absolute alcohol
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Denatured alcohol[edit]
The term "denatured alcohol", when applied to absolute alcohol is misleading, and should not be used in this page unless there are enough sources to back its use up. The most common meaning of denatured alcohol is used for alcohol that has been added some chemicals (e.g. bitrex) that make it unfit for human consumption. However, there are other meanings for denatured alcohol, just look for it as a Wikipedia entry, and you will get to the methylated spirits page by a redirect. I will change the references in this article to anhydrous alcohol; if someone can provide accurate references to the use of the term denatured alcohol as an equivalent to absolute alcohol, then we can add that term to the article. --Paiconos 15:55, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Ethanoyl[edit]
I'm not into chemistry at all, but I was curious as to what this bottle of "Isopropyl Alcohol" was, and got pretty confused because this article says it's always Ethanol. The bottle says "99.9% Ultra Pure Anhydrious Alcohol", but it is really Isopropyl. So what I'm trying to point out is, Anhydrious Alcohol is not always ethanol. Either that or this bottle of puretronics techncial grade isopropyl alcohol is mislabelled. --Kilorat 07:43, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
- I don't get your question. Isopropyl alcohol = 2-propanol (C3H7OH, propyl alcohol = 1-propanol, same molecular formula, other isomer), ethanol is C2H5OH. Anhydrous alcohol in general refers to anhydrous ethanol .. is that the confusion you mean .. ?? Dirk Beetstra T C 07:47, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
- The article says "anhydrous alcohol is purified ethanol, (C2H5OH)", which is the cause of my confusion. It does not say it is generally ethanol, it says it IS ethanol. I'm not at all into chemestry, so I wouldn't dream of editing it myself, so I'm just posting on the talk page here. Kilorat 08:26, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
- I get it! This has to be changed. It is the common 'when people talk about alcohol they in general talk about ethanol', though that is really not correct. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:29, 14 August 2006 (UTC)