Re: glass fuel bowl observation

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2009/6/28 8:24:33

There are literally thousands of chemical compounds that are alcohols; the common low-boiling ones are methyl alcohol or methanol (wood alcohol), ethyl alcohol or ethanol (the drinkable one) and isopropyl alcohol or isopropanol (rubbing alcohol). Ethanol is the one commonly distilled from corn or biomass and which is used in gasoline by Federal requirement an an oxygenate (source of oxygen), isopropanol is the one which we used to buy as "dry gas".

These alcohols are what you could term "cosolvents" meaning in that they have the ability so solubilize some quantity of water into a gasoline/alcohol mixture.