All right, all right - of course rubbing alcohol is propanol! Cheeze,
you folks are as picky as my Chemistry profs.. ;-) Probably explains my
G.P.A. from the 70s... |-P

The folks who suggested Everclear are right on, though. My local State
liquor store didn't keep any on stock when I checked last year during my
annual "Preserve the Blackberries (as a Cordial!)" efforts... Had to go
down to Oregon to find a jug! We have several "bugs" preserved in the
Everclear for my son's classroom, and it seems to work pretty well.

BTW, I was re-reading Townsend's journal from his westering in 1836. He
was preserving his specimens in kegs of whiskey!! Well, part way through
the expedition, he found that the trappers from the American Fur Co. had
been imbibing from the kegs - kind of a "Burrowing Owl Liqueur" of sorts...

Jon. Anderson
Olympia, WA
anderjda at dfw.wa.gov


On Thu, 24 Aug 1995, Maureen Ellis wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Rubbing alcohol is NOT ethanol; it is 2-propanol or n-propanol depending
> on the era in which you first took your elementary chemistry course.
>
> It's in tha book.