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🍸 I like to mix my solutions. The more the merrier. (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More technically, alcohol is a solvent...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s both, you’re mixing different phylogenies. Any alcohol prepared for consumption is a solution of water, ethanol, and various other substances (almost all water or alcohol soluble). Ethanol in aqueous solution is also a strong solvent (pure ethanol is a less effective solvent, but a solvent nonetheless).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So it's a solution that can be a solvent.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alcohol is a solution if you dilute it a little.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100% distillation of alcohol is impossible, so I guess it's always a solution. But technically it's not a solution. Spirits are a solution.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Distillation is not the only way to remove water. You can distill ethanol up to 95.5% and then remove the rest of the water by chemical drying

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Cool. TIL.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To quote a great man by the name of Schotty: "Alkohol ist keine Lösung! Alkohol ist eine Löse – das ist ein Riesen-Unterschied!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's the joke in Swedish about alcohol being a lösningsmedel (solvent, but also something that solves problems). Won't that also work in German but with Lösungsmittel?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I think it would!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

needs more jpeg

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I don't have a drinking problem; I have a drinking solution!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Solvent or solute depending on concentration. The drink however is a solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Anhydrous ethanol gang begs to differ

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How dark it is before the Dawn!