Dr. Matrix - Methanol is not drinking alcohol.

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From this thread.
I don’t want to undermine what you’re saying, because I basically agree that mainlining liquor is stupid, but rest assured that a one ounce shot of vodka (typically 40%) will not kill you.

Methanol, which you seemed to have mistaken for Ethanol, is usually fuel, and never, AFAIK, a drink…

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So for those uneducated fools on the sidelines, could you spell out the whole methanol-ethanol-“wood alcohol”-rubbing alcohol - drinking alcohol differences? (Which of these terms are equivalent?)

I could look it up, but you’re here, and this thread is here…

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What is the difference between methanol (wood alcohol), ethanol (drinking alcohol) and isopropanol (rubbing alcohol)?

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woohoo!

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Oh yeah. We got all the answers. Ignorance Begone!

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I am unable to open your site Darwin’s Finch.

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Darwin’s Finch, I think that page you linked to is wrong in at least one respect.

Methanol is not CH2(OCH3)2; it is CH3OH. Very different.
It’s been a while since I studied chemistry but I’m fairly confident.

Dunno what CH2(OCH3)2 is, a di-ketone perhaps?

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Moderator’s Notes: Hmm. How 'bout we confine the discussion of the closed topic to a single thread? Go here:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=149562