The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 143
Now let's look at scientific comparisons. A company called Custom Advanced
Connections has a website that compares a wide variety of chemicals with different types of rubber (https://www.customadvanced.com). They provide the results via both a dynamic database and a static list. Some of the direct links to
information are:
Ethyl Alcohol and Rubber
Denatured Alcohol and Rubber
Gasoline and Rubber
Benzene and Rubber
Toluene and Rubber
Xylene and Rubber
The results show that ethanol is the least harmful compared to gasoline and the
various "aromatic" substances. The one type of rubber that shows ethanol to
be slightly less compatible, and at the same time shows gasoline and the aromatics to be better than ethanol, is Viton, Fluoroelastomer (FKM). In any event,
the rating for ethanol is still in the highly acceptable category, and nowhere
close to the "severe damage - not recommended categories that gasoline and
aromatics fall into with natural rubber, silicone, and neoprene, to name a few.
