The Czech Republic learned to measure the content of methyl alcohol in alcohol, without opening the bottles

Scientists of the Prague Higher Chemical and Technological School (VCTS) invented a method by which you can measure the content of methyl alcohol in alcoholic beverages without opening bottles. This was announced by the representative of the scientific team Miroslav Novona.

According to her, after the poisoning that began in the Czech Republic, with fake alcohol containing deadly doses of methyl alcohol, the employees of several VCTSh laboratories specially remained at work in order to develop a new method of quickly determining the number of toxic substance as soon as possible.

It is based on the transmission of the bottle with a laser beam and the subsequent analysis of the reflection of part of this beam using a computer, ITAR-TASS reports.

"The new method requires ten times less time for analysis and is much cheaper," Novota said.

The usual chemical analysis of the fluid contained in the bottle is currently costing in the Czech Republic of 300-400 CZK ($ 15-20), while the new method reduces this amount of up to 10 kroons (50 cents).

The only drawback of the new method is that it has not yet passed state certification, added Novota.

The invention of Czech scientists has already become interested in customs officers. Moreover, the device that analyzes the contents of the bottles is compact and can easily be transferred from place to place.

According to the standards existing in the Czech Republic, the permissible content of methyl alcohol in alcohol cannot exceed 12 grams per liter of pure ethyl alcohol. This means that, for example, in 1 liter of pelinka (fruit vodka) a fortress of 50 degrees of methyl alcohol can be no more than 6 grams.

After the Czechs entered the Czech Competition in early September, the Party of Fake Alcohol with a high content of methyl alcohol 76 people were hospitalized, 27 of them died.