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Hey Nexus,

I just read that ethyl acetate with NaHO can yield relativly pure and clean ethanol. As ethanol is pretty expensive arround here I thought this might be an alternative way to just buying pure ethanol.

5l of ethyl acetat cost arround 25€ here wheras a half litre of ethanol is sold for arround 10€.

So...as I am not too knowledgable about chemistry I thought I might ask the more knowledgable people over here if this might be a way for a chemistry layman to get his hands on cheap ethanol. What do you think about this?

[QUOTE="steppa, post: 3733120, member: 18894"] Hey Nexus, I just read that ethyl acetate with NaHO can yield relativly pure and clean ethanol. As ethanol is pretty expensive arround here I thought this might be an alternative way to just buying pure ethanol. 5l of ethyl acetat cost arround 25€ here wheras a half litre of ethanol is sold for arround 10€. So...as I am not too knowledgable about chemistry I thought I might ask the more knowledgable people over here if this might be a way for a chemistry layman to get his hands on cheap ethanol. What do you think about this? [/QUOTE]