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From: zadoc@invalid.com.au
On Mon, 08 May 2006 14:00:49 +1000, Terry Collins
wrote in
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|>Martin wrote:
|>
|>>> and is highly volatile, and will go off
|>>> at the slightest bit of static charge from a person merely walking on a
|>>> carpet and accumulating a positive voltage charge. With a tiny current
|>>> and discharge less than what the Microsoft workers normally handle
|>>> slicone chips and other "high tech" easily damagable stuff with, you
|>>> can set the whole thing off,
|>
|>> bollocks!
|>
|>You might care to explain your "bollocks"
|>Evaporative flammable spirit being exposed to a spark will not light!
|>Is that what you are saying.
|>
|>Seriously, if i can light metho with a spark from a battery, why will
|>Teq not light?
Because metho [methylated spirits, Denatured alcohol to yanks is
95% pure alcohol and Tequila isn't]
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How is Tequila Made?
1800 Tequila is made from the fermented and distilled sap taken
from the "piņa" of the blue agave plants. The piņa hearts are
split open and steamed in 10-ton pressure cookers. The resulting
liquids flow into large steel vats for fermentation, which takes
48-72 hours. After a double distillation process that requires
two weeks or more, a potent 150-proof tequila emerges.
----All Tequila is white when it comes out of the still. This
white, colorless "silver" tequila is then reduced with distilled
water to the desired proof, 80 to 86 proof for the U.S. market.
http://www.web9000.com/webby/tequila/teq1.html
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There is a different definition of "proof" in the USA as opposed
to the UK, Australia, etc.
Roughly speaking, in the US is proof by weight, the
British/Australia is proof by volume.
"American:
An alcohol-water mixture or a beverage containing a standard
amount of alcohol, the U.S. standard being 100 proof, or 50
percent, of ethyl alcohol by volume at 60°F (approximately
15.6°C)."
The highest percentage that can get with distillation is 95%
ethanol [grain alcohol] So in the US, this would be 190 proof.
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However this doesn't mean that you can legally buy it at this
concentration everywhere.
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"Everclear, a neutral grain spirit is sold at 190 proof in parts
of the U.S. where it is legal. For comparison, absinthe (one of
the highest-alcohol commercial liquors available) usually tops
out at around 70% ABV and ranges from about 120 to 130 proof.
Austrian Stroh 80 rum is an exception with a ABV of 80% (proof
160)."
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Material in quotes, and much more info available at
http://www.answers.com/topic/proof-spirit
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"Metho" or methylated spirits is around 95% alcohol, and will
ignite in air. 100% ethanol C12H22O11 for chemical and
industrial use is obtained by treating 95% alcohol with a drying
agent such as anhydrous copper sulfate or calcium chloride.
In passing, the old traditional denaturant was wood alcohol, or
methanol, was used. However as this is toxic to the optic nerve
when ingested in large amounts safer denaturalizing are now used,
in Australia at least.
Posting from misc.survivalism.
Cheers,
zadoc@invalid.com.au
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