On 9/9/2015 4:52 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 08.09.15 10:09, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> As has been mentioned here before, Gene, keeping chewing-gum grade Al >>> cool is the trick, and metho does that very well, without mess. >> >> Metho? Thats a slang I've not encountered. > > Whoops, that may then be an Australianism. It's just Methylated Spirits, > i.e. ethanol with a trace of something to discourage drinking it, > typically pyridine, I think. I'll have to admit that I don't know what > it's called in baseball & gridiron territory. (Did spend 10 days in > Texas, once - not long enough to pick up the language.)
Methylated Spirits is ethanol (spirits) with a bit of methanol (AKA wood alcohol) added to add just a touch of making it poisonous. Methanol has the fun feature of being metabolized into formaldehyde by human biochemistry and it's also extremely destructive to optic nerve tissue. So if it doesn't kill and embalm you, you'll be blind. Methanol is often found in "Fusel Oil" formed during fermentation of alcohol. It takes a skilled distiller to not get that into their product. For even more fun, Fusel Oil can also contain isopropanol, which your liver will happily metabolize into acetone, a chemical commonly used as a solvent in paint. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
