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.
I don’t ignite the water part just the ethanol part. I just assume there is some level of water in the ethanol part and it turns into vapor when ignited.
Seems like ph sensor for alcohol would be expensive. I probably should evaporate the alcohol layer to see if I get any potassium carbonate back. Since it’s conceivable that the potassium carbonate could vaporize or form into potassium carbonate.
Apparently it’s not likely to form KOH. I know electrolysis
Yes that’s where I was suspecting you could have taste altering salts.
I was just imagining pH strips.
that’s a good idea.