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Old July 20th 06, 05:33 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jay Honeck
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Default Testing the Testing of Mogas

Not at all a scientific type person, so this may be a dumb question, but is
there any way to evaporate the water out of the isopropyl alcohol without
burning off the alcohol, or is the evaporation point of the alcohol lower
than that of the water? If so, could you evaporate the alcohol out of the
water, and collect the pure alcohol that way?


Dunno, but someone "up-stream" stated that it was very difficult to get
"100% pure" alcohol because it absorbs water so readily.

In fact, they said that just leaving the cap off the bottle would cause
it to become impure, because it would absorb water almost instantly.

Therefore, I presume the answer to your question is "no" -- but it's
certainly open to debate.
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