99% Isopropanol Alcohol -> Drinkable?

[Twizz]

I was researching Everclear and have found it much too hard to purchase.

So I researched the ingredients being ethanol.

Then I researched 99% Isopropanol Alcohol and found that it is only 1% water and 99% alcohol. I was wondering if I diluted it properly, would it become drinkable?

Also, I couldnt find anywhere i looked that 99% isopropanol has any poisonous byproducts, but I could be wrong. I'm like 80% sure of this.

NEED TO KNOW QUICKLY

[soaringeagle]

what would u want to do such a dumb thing for?
alcahol, all alcahol, is esentialy a poision
theres safe levels of piosion yes but your asking if nearly pure piosion is piosionose

why do you need toknow in a hurry..did someone drink some and if so, how much?

[Twizz]

I'm asking...

If I buy the 99% isopropanol alcohol from the drug store, can I dilute it a lot and drink it like vodka? Or would it just poison you even when it's diluted?

[soaringeagle]

stupid thing to do
tried it once

very last time i ever drank
was a copmpletely horrible experience and the reason i never drank again

[soaringeagle]

it is not safe to do..it says right on the bottle not for internal use..if accidently ingested contact the piosion control center

[polymer]

isopropanol isn't a substrate your liver enzymes will recognize.

leave it for mosquito bites, or fever relief (like the old school remedy), and get someone older to buy you beer if you're desperate.

better yet, take some chemistry and biology classes, and do plenty of reading, before you experiment..just some advice from someone who's done his share of dumb sh1t

[RELAYER]

Just eat a tube of toothpaste instead, it's just about as dumb.

[polymer]

heh, and I just got a fifth of Everclear a couple hours ago.

very useful for extractions and tinctures

[soaringeagle]

rbbin etoh willsendU into acomma 4 2-3 days!! Would be foolish 2 try jist to get high
sorry that was a nurse freind and he wa havin alot more troble with my keyboard then i do...all the letters are blank...& space is screwed...and alotta the shift keys are mismatched..its crazy
anyway....
u dont wanna risk your life do you?

[Grapefruity]

It isnt ethanol, which you can drink

Its isopropyl alcohol...Your askin us if ya can drink rubbing alcohol.

Well, no, its poisonous.

[dd3stp233]

Rubbing alcohol is isopropyl alcohol. It is a different chemical then the drinking type of alcohol, which is ethyl alcohol. It will make you sick (or worse) if you drink it.

[soaringeagle]

sick? try comotose.. touch & go lucky if you survive..possibly lifelong liver probs..18,000 hospitol bill..wake up with tubes down your throught...

all cause u want to get drunk?

getting drunk is dumb enough
geez

[Twizz]

I was just thinking it might be a quick and easy and safe way to go, didnt know of any dangers... SO fuck you eagle. Seriously, your whining is pissing me off.

[polymer]

you did the right thing by asking, but always thoroughly research anything you want to try... or you'll be sorry you didn't.

if there's ANY doubt, don't do it.

[soaringeagle]

I was just thinking it might be a quick and easy and safe way to go, didnt know of any dangers... SO fuck you eagle. Seriously, your whining is pissing me off. how is saying please dont kill yourself whinning?
im being honnest and tryin to keep ya from piosioning yourself
so..thanx and fuck you too :) *






*notice the smile? meant no harm in trying to help you, or in the freindly lil fick you
sometimes ya need harsh truth..if your concidering rubbing alcahol or other deadly substances to get u high

[RELAYER]

how is saying please dont kill yourself whinning?
im being honnest and tryin to keep ya from piosioning yourself
so..thanx and fuck you too :) *






*notice the smile? meant no harm in trying to help you, or in the freindly lil fick you
sometimes ya need harsh truth..if your concidering rubbing alcahol or other deadly substances to get u high


I believe he is reffering to your last sentence in post #12. "Getting drunk is dumb enough" or something like that.

[ConRev]

What you do, is pour it through a loaf of bread, then drink it. Old army trick.

Or just do what soaringeagle says, and forget you ever asked such a question.

[2cesarewild]

Come on dude, put down that joint. It says right on the bottle it's a poison and if ingested you have to call the poison control center.

Does a bottle of rum say that? No. Because it's not a poison in the sense that iso rubbing alcohol is.

[Cuey]

dude listen, back when i was 14, me and a friend "accuired" some 100% alcohol or ethenol. At the time we didn't know that it wasn't safe to drink and mixed in some blackcurrent juice and drank it. We only had a very small amount but it made both of us violently ill and we were lucky we didn't do any permanent damage. It ISN'T safe to drink so stick to absinthe or ouzo!

[USA in decline]

The Denatured Alcohol Mandate
The United Russia deputies brought in Wednesday a bill made out to reduce intoxication by alcohol surrogate. The bill commits makers of methyl and isopropyl alcohol generally used for surrogate to denature the product by adding, for example, gasoline to it. The purpose to attain is to end the era of drinking cleansers, which may yield up to 5 billion rubles to strong drink producers.
It was a group of United Russia deputies that brought in to the State Duma amendments to the Act of State Control of Alcohol Production and Sales. The essence of the bill is to oblige makers of methyl and isopropyl alcohol to add components that may “scare the people attempting to drink it, for instance, the gasoline or kerosene,” explained Pavel Shapkin from Economy Policy Committee of the State Duma.

Actually, the methyl alcohol and isopropyl alcohol are being denatured now, Shapkin said. But they use diethyl phthalate, which has neither taste nor smell. “So for many years, our citizens are drinking fluid for making a fire.”

One of the bill’s masterminds, Valery Draganov, said legislators started thinking of mandatory denaturing “after mass poisoning by surrogate in some regions of Russia.” From mid.-1980s, some Russians are drinking bath cleansers, fluid for unfreezing the locks and antiseptics as a substitute for vodka, which they cannot afford

[2cesarewild]

holy shit, now THAT is poor.

[StonerBill]

its like smoking grass to get high because its a 'plant' and cannabis is also a 'plant'

there is only one sort of alcohol that will get you drunk if you drink it - ethanol

there is a near infinite set of possible chemicals called 'alcohol'

[PurpleGel]

this kid probably also drinks the methanol in the chem lab.

[Trippin' Billies]

this kid probably also drinks the methanol in the chem lab.
haha...




jesus... drinking rubbing alcohol... wut will they come up with next?

[nesta]

dude listen, back when i was 14, me and a friend "accuired" some 100% alcohol or ethenol. At the time we didn't know that it wasn't safe to drink and mixed in some blackcurrent juice and drank it. We only had a very small amount but it made both of us violently ill and we were lucky we didn't do any permanent damage. It ISN'T safe to drink so stick to absinthe or ouzo!no, you didn't ACQUIRE 100% pure ethanol (ethyl alcohol) or it WOULD have been safe to drink. ethanol is exactly the same type of alcohol found in beer, wine, whisky, liqueurs, rum, vodka, tequila, and so on....only its 100% ABV rather than 5%, 10%, 15%, 35%, 40%, etc......

mixed in drinkable juice it would be perfectly fine. well, that is, as fine as any other booze. still not GOOD for you.

if it made you violently ill you either drank too much (which is your fault and doesnt mean its not consumable) or it wasn't actually 100% ethanol and was either denatured (very likely, possibly from a schools chemistry lab), or isopropanol (rubbing alcohol, also likely) or methanol (wood alcohol, like rubbing alcohol this is poisonous)

but since you were 14 i think its probably more likely you got something other than pure ethanol (which is essentially the same as really high quality moonshine and perfectly drinkable if mixed with the right things)

[Eeso]

Isopropanol is metabolized to acetone in the body - no shit.

[cricketlind]

I totally agree. I used to work at a homeless shelter and I know of many who drank "rub-a-dub" on a regular basis as well as "listo" or "lavacol". Rub-a-dub is isopropyl mixed with soda or water and listo and lavacol is mouthwash mixed with the same. It will get you high but it will also get you dead. Or worse fucked up health so bad you pray for death. My dear street brother died from a screwed up liver due to it all. He died a horrible slow lingering death and even though he came to his senses and stopped after he got real sick, it was too late. In "normal" cirrohisis of the liver if you stop drinking at the stage he was at the liver could recover somewhat. But other alcohols that are not ethanol do Permanent damage. That damage can be fatal. I know others who do pour it through the loaf of bread thing and they still get the damage. The bread is supposed to filter out the "bad" stuff. It is still Toxic. If you wanna cheap drink. Get some juice and some sugar and a little yeast. Wine yeast is best but bread yeast will work. Mix the juice and sugar with a little water and add a few granules of the yeast and let it ferment in a Pot like an old canning kettle or such that can be vented but not let dirt and stuff in there. In about a week to 10 days if there is enough sugar in there you should have potent enough wine to get you as drunk as you want. If you don't add enough fruit or sweetening you just get fizzy soda pop or if you let it set too long it turns into vinegar. Cranberry and apple juice make a very fine wine when mixed together. I just like having a glass occasionally to chill out and unwind when I am overly stressed. Once it is done fermenting strain it into empty two liter soda bottles and put in the fridge to chill. Simple and easy and I buy the juice on my stamps. You can also just cover the fermenting pot with a clean cloth and let wild yeast invade it and it will ferment. But you may get other organisms too that will spoil it. A old homeless vet in Florida "Bushman" taught me how to brew up wine. He makes some kick ass brew. He brews it in a five gallon bucket he dumpster dived and cleaned up and hangs it up in a pine tree to ferment it. Once it is done it tastes like punch flavor kool-aid and it packs a punch.

Peace and love, cricketlind

Drink responsibly if you are gonna drink at all. Otherwise leave it be. It ain't worth a headache or other consequences of stupidity. Nothing is worth that.

[Colimon]

Might as well call the ambulence already...

[INSANEPOOKIE]

Alcohol is one of the worst substances to consume.

[danana1026]

My best friend [17 y/o] was admitted into the hospital this morning for ingesting isopropyl rubbing alcohol. so i went online to see why people drink it.

what YOU really need to know is that they had to pump his stomach. he's conscious now but his speech is slurred like crazy to the point that only his sister can understand him.

he's been throwing up blood because of the effects rubbing alcohol has on your digestive organs.

rubbing alcohol has an added chemical that makes it TOXIC.
it can kill you.
my friend is lucky he survived.

so do yourself a favor and don't drink it. there's plently of creepy old people that will buy you alcohol from a liquor store.

[danana1026]

i realize this thread is from a few years ago, but i hope anyone who researches rubbing alcohol in the future with intent of drinking it will learn from my friend's mistake. it's just a crazy bad idea.

[Pengilum]

you will get horrible gas.

[infested_sinner]

you will get horrible gas.
rofl

[Faaroutman]

Soaringeagle is just emphatically trying to tell you that it is seriously baaad shit, and DONT touch it, it is not for drinking. You should have just thanked him for the advice and chucked it away. I even heard that it is bad for it to come in contact with skin never mind drinking it.

[Geneity]

Isopropanol is metabolized into acetone by the liver. So if you want to drink it just skip that step and drink acetone. It'll make you really sick or kill you.

Ethanol is converted into fun things (as well as toxins) by the liver, not acetone.

[akuroiwa]

Here is an article to answer your question. Drinking Rubbing Alcohol can cause severe damage to your body.

Drinking Rubbing Alcohol Article (http://www.alcoholtreatmentclinics.com/isopropal-alcohol-ingestion/)

[Geneity]

lol 6 month old thread......

[DerrtyJake]

I was using a pesticide with isopropyl alcohol in it just the other day. I accidently inhaled it and my nostrils burnt for hours. Now i have a soar throat and a stuffy/runny nose.

STAY AWAY FROM THAT STUFF MAN!!!

[blitz7341]

Do Not Drink Isopropyl Alcohol. There Is A Good Chance You Will Die Or End Up With Drain Damage.

[RollAnotherDrewbie]

dont do it. that would be one of the worst things to drink. you might as well drink cleaner under your sink. if you want to get drunk, drink alcohol thats meant to drink

[Feelings Of U4ia]

Do Not Drink Isopropyl Alcohol. There Is A Good Chance You Will Die Or End Up With Drain Damage.

Holy fuck, please...anything but DRAIN DAMAGE!

Do you know how expensive it would cost to replace a drain?

[moomooman]

oh shit, BURN!!!! nice one U4ia.

[Severely stoned]

If you drink 99% isphoral alcohol you will get VERY sick and VERY fucked up. Enjoy.

[zim466]

first off ethonal is not to be consumed in some liquid forms... Even tho it is a drinkable alcohol, it is generally hard to gey ahold of You won't get high, you will get sick and die. Ethonal is to be consumed by inhailing the fumes. Desial fuel is essentially enthonal. So if you want to get night off ethonal, go to the gas station and fill up a portible tank. Take it home and poor it in a rag, and sniff away.

The rubbing alcohol is so strong that if you take it straight will tear up your asophogas. If you dilute it then it becomes nothing but horrible tasting water. You will only get sick to your stomach and through it up

[Rand al'Thor]

zim you dont know what the fuck your talking about. the only alcohol you want to drink is ethanal, its the the only alcohol that wont kill or blind you. isopropanol alcohol, wood alcohol, methyl alcohol, methanol, denatured alcohol....they are all rather deadly.

to make an example.....

ethanol the type you want to drink...it is converted by the liver into acetaaldehyde, then into acetic acid

isoproponal alcohol is converted by the liver into acetone (finger nail polish remoover). small amounts wont kill you but you will get sick and a have a motherfucker of a hangover from drinking it.

methanol is converted in to formaldehyde, then formic acid, and then to formate. formate basicly prevents yourt body form absorbing oxygen....no oxygen=dead. 1 teespoon of this alcohol can kill/blind



note: i do realize this is an old thread....but i cant stand peopl who spread misinformation out of ignorance.....zim

[HushBull]

Duh?

[Geneity]

lol drugs

wood alcohol = methylated spirits = methyl alcohol = methanol

All the same

I know this post has by far been the most informative. This thread can die now. There's no need to continue beating this dead horse.

:beatdeadhorse5:

[wolf35938]

No Twizz...no matter how much you dilute it...it is still Isopropyl alcohol...chemically diff than Ethanol...Isopropanol is the next in line after Ethanol as far as molecular weight of the alcohol family...First is Methanol (windshield washer fluid) the lightest of all the alcohols, then Ethanol the type that is drinkable, then Isopropanol or rubbing alcohol..which is very bitter and unpalatable I might add and will cause blindness and severe stomach cramps if taken internally. Just dont do it. Also I must add that Methanol is DEADLY poisonous ..as little as 1/4 cup will KILL you..dont mess with it either.