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It is not safe to drink because its toxic to the Human body its died puple so it cant be mixed with other stuff if attempted it would turn purple and it could make you blind it contain a chemical that makes it awfull to taste and makes the stoumach wrech and makes you severlly sick. DO NOT DRINK METHELATED SPIRITS.

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Methylated spirits is primarily methanol - also known as wood alcohol. It is extremely destructive to the optic nerves of people. Ingesting as little as 10mls is enough to cause permanent blindness, 50mls will likely result in death. The saying "blind drunk" is unfortunately derived from the drinking of methanol.

A second reason why it is unsuitable for drinking is because the product is deliberately mixed with a poisonous substance (name escapes me) of an almost exactly the same boiling point - making it almost impossible to remove. It is because of the addition of this substance that the product carries the warning label of "poisonous", not because of the methanol content.

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