Denatured Ethanol Manufacturer,Supplier and Exporter in India

Denatured Ethanol (Product Code: SCI-493/211) is ethyl alcohol made unfit for drinking by added denaturants, used as a general-purpose solvent, cleaning agent and spirit-lamp fuel in school and college laboratories. It comes in a bulk 5 liters container with its MSDS and is listed as analytical reagent grade, suiting any school laboratory setup in India that uses alcohol in several practicals. It is supplied by Jain Scientific Equipments Pvt Ltd (ScienceLab), Ambala, India.

Specifications

What Is Denatured Ethanol Used For?

Biology teachers rely on denatured ethanol for the leaf starch test: after a leaf is softened in boiling water, it is placed in a boiling tube of ethanol warmed in hot water — never over a naked flame — until the chlorophyll dissolves out and the pale leaf can be stained with iodine. The same solvent removes grease and marker ink from glassware, wipes down benches and microscope stages, and fuels spirit lamps where piped gas is not available.

The denaturants that make it cheaper and non-potable can interfere with analytical work, so use pure ethanol wherever a method specifies a defined alcohol. Decant the bulk stock into smaller labelled bottles for class use, keep the main container sealed in a flammables store and treat every portion as highly flammable. Handled this way, it is one of the most useful lab consumables in a science department.

What to Specify When Ordering

• How many 5 liter containers you need for the term or the year.
• Whether the denatured grade suits your work, or whether a method calls for pure ethanol instead.
• Whether you need extra MSDS copies for each laboratory that will store it.
• Any alcohol lamps, water baths or dispensing bottles to be quoted with it.

Supplier

Jain Scientific Equipments Private Limited, known by its trading name ScienceLab, supplies Denatured Ethanol in bulk containers for science departments that use alcohol across biology, chemistry and general lab work. Operating from Ambala, Haryana, the company serves schools, colleges, training institutes and dealers in India and international markets. More information is on the ScienceLab profile page.

Related Laboratory Equipment

These products are often ordered with Denatured Ethanol for starch tests, heating and cleaning:

• Ethanol (ethyl alcohol) — pure ethanol for methods that cannot tolerate denaturants.
• Denatured Ethanol (Alcohol for burning) — the listing intended specifically as burner fuel.
• Water Bath — warms the alcohol gently during the leaf starch test.
• Potassium Iodine-Iodine Solution — stains the decolourised leaf to reveal starch.
• Alcohol Lamp 150 ml — a spirit lamp that burns denatured alcohol.

Other consumables and apparatus are listed in the Laboratory Equipment category.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Denatured Ethanol used for in a school lab?
Denatured Ethanol is used to decolourise leaves in the starch test, to clean grease from glassware and benches, and as fuel for spirit lamps. Its lower cost compared with pure ethanol makes it the practical choice for these everyday jobs in school and college laboratories.

Can Denatured Ethanol replace pure ethanol in every experiment?
No. Denatured Ethanol contains added denaturants that make it unfit to drink and may affect sensitive analyses, extractions or preparations. Where a method specifies pure or absolute ethanol, order that grade instead, and keep the denatured grade for cleaning, fuel and routine decolourising work.

How much Denatured Ethanol is in one container?
Denatured Ethanol (SCI-493/211) is supplied in a 5 liters container with its MSDS, and the listing describes it as analytical reagent grade. Decant it into small labelled bottles for classroom use and keep the bulk container sealed in a flammables store.

Why is Denatured Ethanol warmed in hot water instead of over a flame?
Denatured Ethanol is highly flammable and its vapour can catch fire from a burner. Warming the boiling tube in hot water, with all flames turned off, heats the alcohol gently without an ignition source, which is why the leaf starch test uses this method.

What is the shelf life of Denatured Ethanol?
Shelf life depends on the chemical, its grade and storage conditions, so we do not state a fixed period for Denatured Ethanol. Ask us for the expiry date of the batch you are quoted, and keep containers tightly closed to limit evaporation.

Who supplies the Denatured Ethanol listed here?
The Denatured Ethanol on this page is supplied by Jain Scientific Equipments Pvt Ltd (ScienceLab), Ambala, Haryana, India. The company sources solvents, fuels and reagents for school, college and research laboratories and for dealers in India and international markets.

Request a Quote

Tell us how many 5 liter containers of Denatured Ethanol you need and where they should be delivered through our contact page, or add it to the enquiry cart along with lamps, water baths or pure ethanol. Flammable liquids may need separate packing, which we will confirm with the quotation.

Last updated: 24 September 2026