Finding water free alcohol is basically impossible.

Alcohol will absorb about 2-3% water by volume as soon as it is exposed
to normal air, and that is what you will find in a medical supply
alcohol that is about 98%..

So if everything is kept as dry as possible, you can expect gas that
is 10% alcohol to be at least .2% water minimum.

Whether .2% water is enough to fizz an Alka-Seltzer tablet I have no idea.


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Jim Pennino
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Jim,
Following your line of thinking...

I believe underground gasoline storage tanks have their
pickup point some distance off of the bottom of the tank
to avoid picking up the water that IS on the tank bottom.

Periodically, the bottom water is siphoned off to keep the
water level below the pickup point. This is what they do
at our airport for the underground avgas tanks and at my
local gas station.

If one applies this same thinking to underground gasohol
storage tanks, it is apparent how we get... Alka-Seltzer fizz.

Could one envision the Alka-Seltzer test ever becoming
a legitimate and legal test for the presents of alcohol?

No in this lifetime, IMO!!!!!

No way is this method ever going to be approved
as good science by an authoritive body....
even tho' we might know INDIRECTLY how and why
water contaminated alcohol fizzes.

What a way to get yer butt sued! 8-)


-Barnyard BOb-