Re: methanol

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 1990 05:29

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In article <14169@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> hbg6@citek.mcdphx.mot.com writes:
>If you put it in the freezer, wouldn't the water percipitate out as ice?

No, or at least, not necessarily.  The freezing behavior of such mixtures
is complicated.

Also, note that putting flammable fluids in your refrigerator is a really
bad idea.  The sealed space lets the vapor build up, and almost certainly
the thermostat has open contacts that could supply an ignition spark...
(Chemists use "explosion proof" refrigerators that have their thermostats
and such very carefully sealed away.)
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry

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Subject: Re: methanol
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