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What are pure alcohol |
| Answer» Pure Alcohol: Ethanol (pure alcohol) is a hydrophilic organic solvent, i.e. it mixes readily with water and various water solutions like sugar syrup, but it will not mix directly with sugar. This statement applies to 95% pure drinking quality alcohol.The maximum strength of alcohol that can be produced by the distillation process alone is 97.2% alcohol. The remaining 2.8% water cannot be separated from alcohol as it forms with alcohol as an azeotrope.An azeotrope is a mixture of two or more liquids in such a ratio that its composition cannot be changed by simple distillation. This occurs because when an azeotrope is boiled, the resulting vapor has the same ratio of constituents as the original mixture. | |