Denatured Alcohol
Ethyl Al. cohol, containing substances "which de- , containing substances "which destroy its character as a beverage or render it unfit for liquid medicinal purposes." ( Act of Congress, June 7, 1906; amended March 2, 1907; Act, Oct. 3, 1913). There are two classes of dealcohol, one known as "specially denatured," the other as "completely denatured." The use of the former is DENDERAH restricted to certain industries in which the completely denatured article would stance, as the manufacture of ether, produce harmful effects, such, for ineffects, such, for inchloral hydrate and numerous synthetics. The most ics. The most common formula prefor completely denaturing alcohol was the addition of 10 per cent. zine. In view, however, of the large of methyl alcohol and 1 per cent. of bennumber of deaths and number of deaths and cases of total occurring after the Eighteenth Amendment took effect, this formula in December, 1919, and hereafter no completely denatured alcohol containing more than 2 per cent. methyl alcohol will be allowed on the market. Alcohol is now commonly denatured with pyridin. Wales, with an area of 662 square miles.