You think/claim Exxon Mobil invented Isopropyl alcohol? Are you high, stupid or a shill? Isopropyl alcohol has been around as long as distilled alcohol has been around.
How does it feel to be a victim of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
Bayway became a leading research facility within the S.O. New Jersey enterprise. It was the first facility in the United States to employ the use of hydrogenation process to get greater yields from its crude products, and in 1919 scientists at Bayway created the world's first petrochemical: isopropyl alcohol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayway_Refinery
In 1920, Standard Oil first produced isopropyl alcohol by hydrating propene. Its major use at the time was not rubbing alcohol but for oxidation to acetone, whose first major use was in World War I for the preparation of cordite, a smokeless, low explosive propellant.[15]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopropyl_alcohol
inb4 muh "but it existed naturally"
inb4 muh wikipedia
No... you are an idiot who is falling for revisionist BS. Isopropyl alcohol under different name has been around for thousands of years. Alcohol needs to be refined however and throughout history various cultures have had a number of different production methods with different resulting purities. The ancient Egyptians used alcohol distilled from wood as one of their embalming fluids. Robert Boyle perfected a very high purity refinement method in the 1600s...
What Standard Oil invented in 1920 was a new production process that allowed for the production from inorganic source materials not wood or grain and hence was very cheap to produce from propane which at the time they considered a waste byproduct.
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