Everyone knows about normal drinking alcohol, but do you know about industrial alcohol. Recently, the supreme court said in a decision that the matter of industrial alcohol is more of the state governments than the Center, so the right to make laws on industrial alcohol should also be with the states. Let us know in this article today how different is industrial alcohol from normal alcohol and in what kind of work it is used.
First understand the supreme court case
Kerala, Maharashtra, Punjab, UP and many states had filed an appeal in the supreme court that we cannot sit silent seeing the way industrial alcohol is being used to make poisonous liquor.
So we should be given the right to make laws regarding this alcohol. On october 23, a bench of 9 judges gave its verdict on this and said that the states have the right to make laws in this matter. Let us tell you, before this the right to make laws on industrial alcohol was with the central government.
How different is industrial alcohol from normal alcohol?
You also know industrial alcohol as isopropyl alcohol or denatured alcohol. Talking about the chemical composition of industrial alcohol, it is C₃H₈O. It is mainly used for cleaning and disinfection in industrial settings. In simple language, the alcohol used in the lab is called industrial alcohol. Apart from this, there is an industrial alcohol, ethanol C₂H₅OH. It is often used to make poisonous liquor. State governments want to make laws regarding this, so that deaths due to poisonous liquor can be prevented. On the other hand, talking about normal alcohol, it is mainly ethyl alcohol, which is used to make drinking alcohol.
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