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I did research and a little bit of experimenting with salting out ethanol out of vodka and no I did not drink it because I don't drink. the picture above is high concentration of ethanol on top and water with potassium carbonate on the bottom dissolved into it.

I am here trying to archive my research onto the fediverse and let the community preserve the science I have done. now I have a PDF file of this discourse post I made. https://discourse.eom.dev/t/salting-out-recommended-procedure-by-solidheron/434 and I don't seem to have any place to put it and I'm up for suggestions.

if you do want to read the post id recommend skipping the procedure and reading the second half that goes into why you should. procedure is put first because the HOW is more important than the why. please feel free to comment on any mistake I made in the post or if you have any suggestion to improve on it.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Imma try it then! My wife rarely drinks and I only drink cheap beer. We have loads of crappy alcohol around we'll never touch.

How does ethanol compare for the task I would use isopropyl for? Cleaning stuff mainly.

[–] Cattail@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

I used results from my experiments for hand sanitizer. But I assume pure ethanol would be good window cleaner since it evaporates so easily.

you want to concentrate isopropyl and you can use table salt and a lot of shaking, but potassium carbonate probably will work better