microorganism in alcohol
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microorganism in alcohol
Who can show me which microorganism can live (or alive for a long time) in hight content of ethanol. And what concentration is it?
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- victor
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12-15%? Of course it's low..some microorganisms can live in that condition...I think they can't tolerate anymore to Ethyl alcohol with 70-98% concentration by volume...
Hey, do you know...adding ethanol 98% to your gasoline tank in your motorcycle with comparison 10 : 90 might add your machine performance...

Hey, do you know...adding ethanol 98% to your gasoline tank in your motorcycle with comparison 10 : 90 might add your machine performance...

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- MrMistery
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Mycoderma aceti. Uses ethanol and turns it to ethanal. Tolerates 100% i guess, or something really close to that.
It will. However it is my recommandation that you don't do that since it will ruin your engine in the long run. A much cheaper and better choise would be biodiesel: used cooking oil. Environmently friednly, too. Which is a lot more than i can say about gasoline

Hey, do you know...adding ethanol 98% to your gasoline tank in your motorcycle with comparison 10 : 90 might add your machine performance...
It will. However it is my recommandation that you don't do that since it will ruin your engine in the long run. A much cheaper and better choise would be biodiesel: used cooking oil. Environmently friednly, too. Which is a lot more than i can say about gasoline


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MrMistery wrote:Really? I read the exact opposite in a magazine here in Romania. But then again, it wasn't a science one so i am not sure about the info
It can happens if you make more than this comparison.
ethanol : gasoline = 24 : 76
The result is, your machine won't work...

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I think there 're a wrong thing.
I mean some microoganism use ethanol as a carbon source (methylotropth), it is different with use ethanol in electron transport chain (... I forget the term: yeast-->ethanol--acetobacter-->acetic acid)
But Mycoderma aceti is quite good. Thanks
I mean some microoganism use ethanol as a carbon source (methylotropth), it is different with use ethanol in electron transport chain (... I forget the term: yeast-->ethanol--acetobacter-->acetic acid)
But Mycoderma aceti is quite good. Thanks
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