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Ethanol is an antidote for methanol. Methanol is a very poisonous by itself, but when mixed with ethanol, its consumption might end without long term consequenc

• hilbert42 2y ago
  "I believe that 50/50 is survivable. " Perhaps so, but is that a one-off shot/dosing or habitually (as an alcoholic)? In my other post I pointed out that denatured ethanol sold as 'Methylated Spirits' used to have 15% methanol and 3% pyridine as denaturants and in practice this combination was considered highly toxic and that's why the denaturants were changed to nontoxic denatonium (ie 95% ethanol, 5% H2O and trace denatonium). For Methylated Spirits the methanol/pyridine ratios were set deliberately to be toxic and the product was labeled 'POISON'. Whether the pyridine added significantly to the toxicity I cannot say. Nor do I know why the ratios were set as they were. No doubt a check of how that standard was set and the death rate stats before and after the denatonium was added would tell the actual story.