ORIGINAL: gkaraolides
Greetings,
ORIGINAL: Taurus Flyer
Someone has to help us with ''spiritus'' and the right translation. Cutting oils I use for steel.
Spiritus is a normal ''household liquid'' (my coal English!!) to clean windows, it's a kind of (95%) alcohol.
In the Netherlands ''spiritus'' is also used in little burners for (cheese) fondue.
The ''spiritus'' is probably what's known as surgical alcohol or medicinal alcohol or rubbing alcohol, and often sold as ''pure alcohol''. It's basically a pure form of ethanol, which is the alcohol you get in alcoholic drinks. It's fairly expensive because if it was any cheaper people would buy it to drink instead of alcoholic drinks... Besides cleaning glass, or as a smokeless fuel (fondue warmer fuel...), you can use it as an antiseptic, for wound dressing, or for a good rub down when you have a cold.
There is also methylated spirits. It's basically the same thing (ethanol) but with a bit of methanol (as used for glow fuel) mixed in to stop you drinking it. Drinking methanol will blind you, destroy your kidneys and do other horrible things to you. Methylated spirits is usually dyed blue to warn you not to drink it. I suppose in the application we're discussing, and also for use as a fuel in your fondue burner, methylated spirits would work just as well as surgical alcohol, and should cost less, but do keep it away from your skin and eyes. I suspect it would not be as good as pure ethanol for cleaning windows but I haven't tried.
Best regards,
George
George,
Thanks for explanation, the bolt is the liquid I use. Color is light blue!!
I knew it was too complicated fot me to explain, thanks again.
Cees