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164:). In order to avoid paying beverage taxes on alcohol that is not meant to be consumed, the alcohol is usually "denatured", or treated with added chemicals to make it unpalatable. Its composition is tightly defined by government regulations in countries that tax alcoholic beverages. Denatured alcohol is used identically to ethanol itself but only for applications that involve fuel, surgical and laboratory stock. Pure ethanol is required for food and beverage applications and certain chemical reactions where the denaturant would interfere. In 33: 210:
of alcohol in the US, federal law required methanol be added to domestically manufactured industrial alcohols. From 25–27 December 1926, which was roughly at the midpoint of nationwide alcohol prohibition, 31 people in New York City alone died of methanol poisoning. To help prevent this,
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or other simple processes to reverse the denaturation. Methanol is commonly used both because its boiling point is close to that of ethanol and because it is toxic. Another typical denaturant is pyridine. Often the denatured alcohol is dyed with
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suitable for consumption, it is a cheaper solution for most uses that do not involve drinking. If pure ethanol were made cheaply available for fuel, solvents, or medicinal purposes, it could be used as a beverage without payment of alcohol tax.
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initiated by the Soviet government. There is much evidence to that in both popular folklore and in literature and music. The word "denaturat" (Russian: денатурат) even gained a special symbolic meaning. Its consumption is mentioned in songs of
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Naim Kosaric, Zdravko Duvnjak, Adalbert Farkas, Hermann Sahm, Stephanie Bringer-Meyer, Otto Goebel and Dieter Mayer in "Ethanol" Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, 2011, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim.
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European Community COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 162/2013 on the mutual recognition of procedures for the complete denaturing of alcohol for the purposes of exemption from excise duty
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Denatured alcohol has no advantages for any purpose over normal ethanol; it is a public policy compromise. As denatured alcohol is sold without the often heavy taxes on
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Completely denatured alcohol must be made in accordance with the following formulation: with every 90 parts by volume of alcohol mix 9.5 parts by volume of
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to form a foul-tasting, often toxic, solution. For many of these solutions, it is intentionally difficult to separate the components.
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and denatonium benzoate, N.F. In the United States and other countries, the use of denatured alcohol unsuitable for beverages avoids
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There are several grades of denatured alcohol, but in general the denaturants used are similar. As an example, the formulation for
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Per hectolitre (100 L) of absolute ethanol: 3 litres of isopropyl alcohol, 3 litres of methyl ethyl ketone and 1 gram
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The European Union agreed in February 2013 to the following mutual procedures for the complete denaturing of alcohol:
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Section 21.151. A specially denatured alcohol is a combination of ethanol and another chemical substance, e.g.,
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or a substitute and 0.5 parts by volume of crude pyridine, and to the resulting mixture add mineral naphtha (
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New Zealand has removed methanol from its government-approved "methylated spirits" formulation.
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is often added to give the substance an extremely bitter flavour. Substances such as
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in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom; and
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Despite its poisonous content, denatured alcohol is sometimes consumed as a
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27 CFR 20, regulations relating to denatured alcohol in the United States
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Specifications and licensing of methylated spirits in the United Kingdom
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1 US gallon or 3.785 litres of denatured alcohol in a metal container
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What is specially denatured alcohol (SDA)? definition and meaning
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Ethanol with additives to discourage recreational consumption
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In many countries, sales of alcoholic beverages are heavily
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Diverse additives are used to make it difficult to use
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Production, distribution and use of denatured alcohol
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Index

Methylated spirit

denatured rectified spirit
ethanol
poisonous
nauseating
recreational consumption
Pyridine
methanol
denatonium
solvent
alcohol burners
camping stoves
isopropyl alcohol
acetone
methyl ethyl ketone
methyl isobutyl ketone
Denaturing
chemically
denaturation
mixed with other chemicals
Ethanol § Uses
taxed
Pigovian tax
molecular biology
precipitation
nucleic acids
alcohol
List of methanol poisoning incidents
Harm reduction § Alcohol

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