Originally Posted by
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Organic Compound ______________ Boiling Point, °C.
Acetone _____________________________56.5
Methanol ____________________________ 64.7
Ethyl acetate ________________________ 77.1
Ethyl alcohol (100%) __________________ 78.4
Ethyl alcohol (95%), the azeotrope ______ 78.1
Propyl alcohol ________________________ 97.2
Water ______________________________ 100.0
Butyl alcohol ________________________ 117.5
Amyl alcohol ________________________ 137.8
if you were to make Ethanol to run your car you would need to distill out other compounds that are not favorable. I grew up with 55 gal drums of Acetone around me. The stuff is a great cleaner and other the distorting/attaching plastics and rubber products it cleans metal. Squeaky clean metal will oxidize. Fuel lines will rust from the inside out. The rust gets in the injectors and damages them. I have seen pictures of injector components under a microscope after running ethanol in a system that wasn't designed for it.