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.
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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