[Jewelry making - Article 00429] - Re: [Orchid] [Source] Roach-pruf boric acid

[Gary Bourbonais]

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    Now an alcohol primer 

    Hi Jim...List.... 

    In another dimension of time and space I dabble in Natural
    Perfumery.... 

    Without generating a long treatise about the philosophy involved,
    etc.... Most natural essences require a very high percentage of
    alcohol, of whichever kind, to dissolve into... 

    Everclear comes two ways, if at all, depending upon where you live,
    in the US.... Either 150 proof (or 75%) or 190 proof (or 
95%)....about
    $19/liter for the 190 here in WI... 

    Everclear is a grain distilled ethanol (alcohol)...think of vodka on
    steroids, with none of its rough edges removed by filtration.... You
    can drink this stuff straight, if you're crazy enough to try it...
    Due to a run in with some rather potent moonshine many years
    past....I never have...... 

    I wonder if the trolls and gremlins might be appeased.........? 

    Denatured alcohol is ethanol in which something is added to it so it
    is not drinkable....This keeps the BATF happy, so denatured can
    bought for thinning paint and coatings, as a cleaning solvent,
    alcohol lamps, making flux/firecoat and things like that.... 

    Isopropyl alcohol, aka rubbing alcohol, unless specially ordered,
    come two ways, here in WI for example, 70% and 91%....Not sure where
    it comes from, I suspect it's toxicity is low.... Great for pulling
    dyes out of cabs you have a suspicion about, cleaning off
    fingerprints, a preclean for an epoxy or other adhesive, etc... 

    Methanol, is the so-called "wood" alcohol, but actually most of it
    is synthesiized from I forget what....It is a high grade solvent and
    cleaner...... 

    It is also very toxic, attacks the nervous system and can cause
    blindness.... You don't have to drink or inhale this stuff....it can
    pass through the skin..... 

    Sometimes methanol is used as a *denaturing* agent for ethanol.....A
    very low percentage..... 

    Bad juju this...... 

Gary W. Bourbonais
A.J.P. (GIA)
aka L'Hermite Aromatique
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