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Title: Vinegar
Post by: cazpermfm on April 21, 2018, 12:53:09 AM
Hi there, can i make synthetic vinegar by just mixing raw organic coconut vinegar and glacial acetic acid?

Thanks!
Title: Re: Vinegar
Post by: billnotgatez on April 21, 2018, 03:32:22 AM
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You might want to GOOGLE vinegar
or look at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinegar
Title: Re: Vinegar
Post by: pifi on May 04, 2018, 02:18:43 AM
Maybe my reply is little off-topic, but have you tried home-made vinegar made by bacteria ?
"ethanol vinegar" from low-end wine, etc.  You can get up to 8% concentration of vinegar, then you can concentrate it.
But forget about p.a. substance quality ;-)
Title: Re: Vinegar
Post by: Mitch on May 04, 2018, 09:53:58 AM
Glacial acetic acid is vinegar, just don't drink it as it's too strong.
Title: Re: Vinegar
Post by: billnotgatez on May 04, 2018, 04:09:17 PM
The WIKI for Acetic acid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetic_acid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetic_acid)
states
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About 75% of acetic acid made for use in the chemical industry is made by the carbonylation of methanol

It seems odd to me that one would want to take
organic coconut vinegar
which already has Acetic acid (4 - 10%)
and adulterate it with a manufactured Glacial acetic acid that could potentially have trace stuff not normally found in biologically made vinegar.

Also stated in the WIKI
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The biological route accounts for only about 10% of world production, but it remains important for the production of vinegar because many food purity laws require vinegar used in foods to be of biological origin.