Correction,
specific gravity of furfuryl alcohol is 1.12, still very high for a fuel,
nearly as high as LOx.
Ken
On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 8:33 PM Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 4 Apr 2023, roxanna Mason wrote:
I got a 5 gallon drum free from quaker oats back around 1986.Stinks and
is toxic, they were glad to get rid of it I'm sure.
Not severely toxic -- a bit more so than methanol -- although there is
some suspicion it may be somewhat carcinogenic (as is gasoline...).
Traces occur in many foods, and in fact small amounts are used as a
flavoring food additive! Not particularly dangerous because its vapor
pressure is quite low and it's not absorbed significantly through the skin
(although it's a skin irritant); just don't drink it...
Henry