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Methanol Defined
An alcohol that can be used as an alternative fuel or as a gasoline additive. It is less volatile than gasoline; when blended with gasoline it lowers the carbon monoxide emissions but increases hydrocarbon emissions. Used as pure fuel, its emissions are less ozone-forming than those from gasoline. Poisonous to humans and animals if ingested.
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Methanex Corporation Appoints Robert Kostelnik to Its Board of Directors
Published August 29, 2008, 6:01 am, Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance
Methanex Corporation(NASDAQ: MEOH)(SANTIAGO: Methanex) is pleased to announce the appointment of Robert Kostelnik to its Board of Directors effective September 1st, 2008.
Counterfeit vodka to be destroyed
Published August 28, 2008, 1:40 pm, BBC News
A court order is obtained to destroy fake vodka containing potentially harmful levels of methanol.
Fake vodka can blind
Published August 28, 2008, 6:31 am, NewsWales
Gwynedd Trading Standards Unit is issuing an urgent warning to anyone who may have bought counterfeit 70cl Spar brand Imperial Vodka. The counterfeit product has been found in Northumberland and North London and was discovered to contain dangerous levels of methanol.
Warning over contaminated vodka
Published August 27, 2008, 5:51 am, BBC News
Drinkers in Stirling are warned to be on the lookout for fake vodka containing potentially harmful levels of methanol.
All News... Beware: rogue vodka can blind or even kill
Published August 27, 2008, 4:36 am, The Kent Messenger
Can YOU spot the difference? One can cause nausea, shock, kidney failure, blindness, coma and even death..... the other is a bottle of vodka.
In this section
Published August 27, 2008, 4:15 am, St Albans Observer
Hertfordshire Trading Standards is urging people to be on the look out for fake vodka that can cause blindness.
Air-Purifying Church Windows Early Nanotechnology
Published August 26, 2008, 10:55 pm, PhotonicsOnline
Stained glass windows that are painted with gold purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight, a team of Queensland University of Technology experts have discovered.
Time reveals all that filters is gold
Published August 26, 2008, 7:00 am, The Australian
IT probably wasn't the purity the artists and artisans who created the stained-glass windows of medieval cathedrals had in mind, but it appears the gold they used purified the air, literally.
Danger alert over counterfeit vodka
Published August 26, 2008, 3:22 am, ic CheshireOnline
BOROUGH council chiefs are warning residents not to drink potentially dangerous bottles of counterfeit vodka. The council’s environmental health unit says the fake SPAR Imperial Vodka contains methanol, which could cause serious health effects including blindness.
State legislator opposes proposed AVX emissions
Published August 25, 2008, 6:45 pm, Florence Morning News
State Representative Alan Clemmons, (R) Myrtle Beach, has written formal letters to the the director of South Carolina Department of Health and to U. S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R) South Carolina, opposing AVX Corporation’s requested air permit.
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- Anne Korin's profile is rising with the price of crude oil | Muckety.com - See the news: Anne Korin is accustomed to writing for policy wonks who read Foreign Affairs and testifying about global security before politicians in Congress, but with the rising price of oil her message may soon be reaching a wider audience.
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- UOP Technology Licensed to Eurochem to Convert Methanol to Olefins in New Nigerian... | Reuters
- Textile News - Nigeria : UOP provides methanol-to-ol efins technology for Nigerian complex.
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