I did research and a little bit of experimenting with salting out ethanol out of vodka and no I did not drink it because I don’t drink. the picture above is high concentration of ethanol on top and water with potassium carbonate on the bottom dissolved into it.
I am here trying to archive my research onto the fediverse and let the community preserve the science I have done. now I have a PDF file of this discourse post I made. https://discourse.eom.dev/t/salting-out-recommended-procedure-by-solidheron/434 and I don’t seem to have any place to put it and I’m up for suggestions.
if you do want to read the post id recommend skipping the procedure and reading the second half that goes into why you should. procedure is put first because the HOW is more important than the why. please feel free to comment on any mistake I made in the post or if you have any suggestion to improve on it.
That’s very cool! I’ve heard that calcium oxide can work as a “decanting” agent to pull water out of ethanol too. I wonder how they compare.
It annoys me that I just figured out dessication in distillation. Like now there’s a bunch more experiments to do and I know so little they could be useful for medical piracy.
From research with distillation they’re pretty necessary to get high consentration of alcohol