Why would moonshiners run stuff through a radiator; do they not know ethanol counteracts next to antifreeze?
if you drink ethelyn glycol(antifreeze) from any product; the doctor will administer ethanol(alcohol) to you, to counteract effects of antifreeze. why would the bootleggers do this?
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Actually, some desperate drunks will drink methanol. It'll still get you drunk, just before it kill you.
They use a radiator as member of the distillation process. There is no antifreeze present.
Methanol and ethylene glycol are usually present as contaminants. In most cases moonshiners do not purposefully add them.
Ethylene glycol gets in when they use a radiator and don't satisfactorily flush it. Methanol is formed as part of the normal fermentation process and is the first part of the distillate to come out...it can be eliminate by getting rid of this first part.
In terms of getting drunk, methanol and ethylene glycol do not counteract alcohol. The reason alcohol is given to those poisoned by one of the contaminants is to prevent their metabolism to toxic byproducts via alcohol dehydrogenase. The ethanol competes for the enzyme while the body rids the toxins via smaller number toxic mechanisms.
If moonshiners are deliberately adding methanol or other types of denatured alcohol later they may be trying to just have more volume to sell or use...I hope they don't expect repeat customers.
Well, maybe they flush out the radiator first. Then there is no antifreeze in within.
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Actually, some desperate drunks will drink methanol. It'll still get you drunk, just before it kill you.
They use a radiator as member of the distillation process. There is no antifreeze present.
Methanol and ethylene glycol are usually present as contaminants. In most cases moonshiners do not purposefully add them.
Ethylene glycol gets in when they use a radiator and don't satisfactorily flush it. Methanol is formed as part of the normal fermentation process and is the first part of the distillate to come out...it can be eliminate by getting rid of this first part.
In terms of getting drunk, methanol and ethylene glycol do not counteract alcohol. The reason alcohol is given to those poisoned by one of the contaminants is to prevent their metabolism to toxic byproducts via alcohol dehydrogenase. The ethanol competes for the enzyme while the body rids the toxins via smaller number toxic mechanisms.
If moonshiners are deliberately adding methanol or other types of denatured alcohol later they may be trying to just have more volume to sell or use...I hope they don't expect repeat customers.
Well, maybe they flush out the radiator first. Then there is no antifreeze in within.
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