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Offline anonymical

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Suspending Milk in Alcohol
« on: October 16, 2009, 03:53:35 PM »
Hello, I'm new here, and I hope this is the simplest of questions. I am an artist who does large charcoal drawings and is searching for a way to "fix" the charcoal to the paper in a non-toxic way. I have been experimenting with milk.

Will a skim milk and pure alcohol mix together?  ???

Any ideas would be appreciated.

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Re: Suspending Milk in Alcohol
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2009, 04:07:41 PM »
The alcohol would curdle the milk (denature all of the proteins, make them clump together, and fall out of solution, creating a cheese-like solid).

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