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Methyl Hydrate Vs Methanol

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AlkyUser

Automotive
Oct 11, 2006
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I have been experments using METHYL HYDRATE as a fuel. It is ready available in hardware stores as a Painting supply.

The engine that I am using runs fine when af is adjusted to it.

I did a search on the internet, and they are said to be the same.

Can someone verify this?
 
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Look up MSDS for both materials. That will tell you if they are the same

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Yes acording to the msds they are.

I will asume any tunning that I do will be the same when I purchase larger quauties of methanol and run it.
 
If you use hardware store grade, check purity and water content. You can check water content of otherwise pure methyl alcohol by testing specific gravity.

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METHYL HYDRATE is poor chemical terminology.
Methyl alcohol is a methyl group ( -CH3) attached to a hydroxyl group ( -OH). A more appropriate albeit cumbersome term is hydroxylated methane. Hydrate would indicate a water molecule is attached.

Methyl hydrate is also the name for the icelike, methane-water compound found at frigid ocean depths. It makes the newscasts from time to time since it has potential as both an energy source and a global warming threat (enormous amount of greenhouse gas). Structure of a Methyl Hydrate (more correctly, methane hydrate) molecule:

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