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David Arens Thursday, February 28, 2002
   
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    Hi Paul, 

>     what is denatured alcohol ?

    Denatured alcohol is an alcohol that was potentially consumable by
    humans, but has a poison added to it to make it unfit for human
    consumption. 

    Alcohol is not expensive to produce. Since it is a pleasurable drink
    to many folks, alot of governments apply a hefty tax to consumable
    alcohol. To insure that they get their tax, the governments required
    all alcohol on which tax is not paid by the mfgr. must be rendered
    unfit for human consumption. This is done by adding a poison of some
    kind to the pure alcohol. Usually there's a colorant added as well
    to differentiate it from pure alcohol, since pure alcohol is clear.
    Thus the term 'denatured' (no longer natural). In the US most
    'denatured' alcohol has a purple colorant added. 

Dave



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