Dynamics of isopropyl alcohol and ethyl alcohol

I'm sorry if this has been covered already, but I did utse and I couldn't find exactly what I wanted to know. I'm curious as to why isopropyl alcohol is supposed to extract thc in a few minutes or shorter, while ethyl alcohol takes weeks or months. Could someone explain this?

 

ahh...now I see why I get weird looks when I buy a dozen bottles of this at walmart

(it somehow helps with arthritis joint pain)

 

Fuck I'm high. Nevermind.

 

one you can drink and the other you cant.. They both can be diluted with water, so the proof or % can be different.. depending on this factor they extract the same ..

 

Dynamics of isopropyl alcohol ,, you will get sick if you drink it...



and ethyl alcohol,, you will get intoxicated if you drink it ..

 

I don't really know much chemisty but I can get that 2 is greater than 1. Note to self; study chemistry. Also, is there anything you could do to speed up ethyl alcohol absorption, besides heat and agitation? Sorry for the multiple question thread by the way.

 

Isopropyl alcohol has added agents to make you get very sick if you drink it so the homeless people don't try and get drunk off their $1.50 bottles.

Besides its use for isohash, isopropyl has a lot of other purposes, such as cleaning your glass smoking instruments, being a safe cleaner for LCD screens, being the perfect cleaning agent for wounds (though it'll hurt, just suck it up and be a man), and of course it's also a nice flammable projectile if it came down to that

 

I like how no one actually addressed OP's question. Including me. Thread delivers.

 

It's most likely got something to do with the shape of isopropyl alcohol (2-propanol) vs ethanol. 2-propanol is more acidic, don't know how that would make a difference, especially since THC has a more acidic proton than either solvent. 2-propanol also is closer in structure to acetone than ethanol is, and apparently THC is super soluble in acetone.

IDK man, wish I could help you out. It's a good question for realz.

 

NoNoNo. Isopropyl alcohol is poison on its own. you're thinking of Denatured alcohol, like you buy in a paint store, is ethyl with additives

 

It's much safer than methanol though. I looked online and of 2,000 hospitalizations for isopropyl alcohol ingestion in a year there was only one fatality. Not that we should all go out and drink it, just saying.