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GREAT BRITAIN. 



The new law relating to the denaturing of alcohol in England for 

 industrial purposes went into effect on October 1, 1906. One of the 

 principal objects of the law is to extend the uses of denatured alcohol 

 to the manufacture of certain products which could not be made with 

 the ordinary denatured alcohol as provided under the old law. 

 Under the new order denatured alcohol may be used for the following 

 additional purposes: 



1. Methylated spirits may be used in the manufacture of sulfuric ether, ethyl chlorid, 

 methyl chlorid, ethyl bromid, chloroform, and hydrate of chloral, for use as a medicine 

 or in any art or manufacture; and no objection is made to the substitution of methylated 

 spirits for rectified spirits in the preparation of soap, compound camphor, aconite, and 

 belladona liniments of the British Pharmacopoeia. 



2. No methylated spirits nor any derivative thereof, except sulfuric ether, ethyl chlorid, 

 methyl chlorid, ethyl bromid, chloroform, and hydrate of chloral, can lawfully be present 

 in any article whatever capable of being used either wholly or partially as a beverage, or 

 internally as a medicine. 



Generally it may be said that in addition to the alterations in the 

 law in regard to the mineralized spirit, the old " ordinary" spirit is 

 to be replaced by a new kind officially designated " industrial meth- 

 ylated spirits." In other words, the mixture of 9 parts of 90 per 

 cent rectified spirits and 1 part of crude methyl alcohol is replaced 

 by a mixture in which the proportion of wood alcohol or other 

 approved denaturing substance is reduced to a minimum of one- 

 nineteenth of the bulk of the spirit denatured. The result of this is 

 that such denatured alcohol becomes suitable for the manufacture of 

 the substances mentioned above, thus greatly extending the indus- 

 trial uses of the denatured spirits. 



The mineralized methylated spirit, sold for lamps and domestic 

 use generally, contains, in addition to the above, three-eighths of 

 1 per cent of approved mineral naphtha. The following statement 

 gives an idea of the production of denatured alcohol in Great Britain: 



TABLE VI. Denatured alcohol produced in Great Britain, 1900-1904.a 



a Report of the English Industrial Alcohol Committee, 1905. 



b Decrease mainly due to the fact that certain firms were allowed to denature alcohol by other sub- 

 stances than wood naphtha. 



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