'Et cum spiritu tuo - C_2H_5OH'

摘要

Under current industry practice, where damn near everything has become water-borne, or powder, paint technolo-gists are becoming a different lot. It used to be said that "it was the turps fumes that got one". In the old days, visitors to large multi product paint factories used to ask. "How do you put up with the smell??" Only to be greeted with the incredulous reply, "What smell??" Is this the explanation of the association between old paint technologists and ethanol?