Someone mentioned a bar owner mixing diethylene with whiskey. What is it and what would it do to the drinker?!
Answers: I should probably mention they used the word 'unscrupulous' to describe this bar owner and that it was hypothetical. But why would they mix it? What is it? What does it do?
diethylene glycol is a poison.
read more about it.
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/ehs/student%20haz...
and also somebody did mix it into alcohol and tried to sell it.
"scandal over poisoned wine embitters village in austria." by john tagliabue. new york times. august 2, 1985
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.ht...
more scandals involving products adulterated with ethylene glycol
http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/corporate/n...
oz for oz it is way cheaper than whiskey
they do it to make make money.
as for what would it do ,bad shitt i guess.