➡️ What is meant by denatured alcohol? What is the need to denature the alcohol?
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What is denatured alcohol ?
Denatured alcohol is ethanol, mixed with methanol or other non-edible substances like hydrated copper-sulphate, which also imparts blue color to the alcohol so that it can be identified.
What is the need to denature alcohol ?
We know that alcohol makes the nervous system work slower and is also harmful for inseparable body organs like the liver.
We also know that it is used in many industries like perfumes, nail paints etc.
It is made unfit for drinking by denaturing it in order to prevent its misuse in the industries by the workers as it is available to them at low costs and edible alcohol is costly.
Answer:
Denatured alcohol is ethyl alcohol which has been made unfit for drinking purposes by adding small amount of poisonous substances like copper sulphate , methanol pyridine. The need of denature alcohol is to :- To prevent from the misuse of the industrial alcohol for drinking purposes.
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