"Huge" wrote in message
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On 2017-10-02, Ade wrote:
On 01/10/2017 23:09, jim wrote:
Tim Streater Wrote in message:
In article , Jethro_uk
wrote:

Annoyingly, it's very hard to get all the water out of ethanol/water
due
to the boiling point of the mixture being slightly lower than the
boiling
point of water (96C IIRC). Azoetrope IIRC again ....

Isn't the boiling point if ethanol even lower?


:-)


Ethanol bp is 78c which is why it is so easy to seperate from Methanol
at 64c when brewing.

Do ethanol, methanol & water form a triple azeotrope?

Nope.

If so, they are not separable.

They are trivially separable and that is done all the time with distilling.

(I suspect not, since the practice of discarding the foreshots
and feignts in whiskey distillation would be pointless.)

Not necessarily, there are a lot more than just those to alcohols
and water in what you distil and the higher alcohols are foul taste
wise. Methanol isnt.