What's up with alcohol(s)?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Dangers of Alcohols
Methanol and water have similar structures because of in dermolecular forces. That's why you don't really see a line like if you have a glass of ethanol, the alcohol that you drink and there's an ice cube in it,. It sort of goes into solution those two mixed together. 90,000 pets a year are pets and wildlife a year are poisoned annually from drinking methanol. Ethylene glycol is also very dangerous. About 6,000 people were poisoned in just 2012.
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