<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><html>On 15/02/2008, at 6:46 PM, Tortoise wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Question for someone with some technical knowledge.<br><br>I have a bottle of 99% isopropyl alcohol for use as a sterilizer. I'm <br>wondering if this can be used as a stove fuel. It's relatively cheap. Or is <br>it too volatile?</blockquote><br></div><div>My Brasslite stove instruction say:</div><div><br></div><div><b>Note</b>: isopropanol (i.e. ISO_HEET or rubbing alcohol) is <b>NOT</b> recommended because it burns with a very sooty flame </div><div>(Bradsslites's emphasis)</div><div><br></div><div>They recommend </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Pure methanol (HEET), ethanol/methanol mixture or pure ethanol</div><div><br></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; ">Denis Stanton</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#808080" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><a href="mailto:denisstanton@mac.com">denisstanton@mac.com</a></span></font></div></span></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>