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Comment by umanwizard

12 hours ago

Alcohol is flammable around 40%. French cooks aren’t using overproof brandy to do flambé.

Gunpowder doused in alcohol is, very famously for people interested in the history of rum, flammable if the alcohol is around 57.1% or higher, but straight alcohol/water without gunpowder is flammable at a lower strength than that.

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