At 4/24/2014 05:55 PM,Rocket J Squirrel wrote: >Please forgive -- this is best suited for Friday but I won't be able to >post on Friday and I have a burnin' desire. > >Unless you've been living on Mars this past week, you've heard about >"Palcohol" <http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/21/palcohol/> purported to >be "Powdered Alcohol."
A 10 second search with google turned this up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_powder >>According to food chemist Udo Pollmer of the European Institute of Food and Nutrition Sciences in Munich, alcohol can be absorbed in cyclodextrins, a sugar derivate. In this way, encapsuled in small capsules, the fluid can be handled as a powder. The cyclodextrins can absorb an estimated 60 percent of their own weight in alcohol.[1] A US patent was registered for the process as early as 1974.[2]<<
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