Talk:Alcohol (chemistry)/Archive 1

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168 and 137 mg/kg, and rats at 162 mg/kg (National Toxicology Program 1991)." So WP has been misinforming readers for over 2 years. The figure presently used in the article is that for mice (not rats) multiplied by ten. Perhaps some of the Fundamentalist Skeptics should forgo the thrills of chasing down non-mainstream belief systems and do a bit of proof-reading? My confidence as a user of Knowledge (XXG) is slipping more and more - if this "encyclopdia" can't even get the basics correct - as in accurately report data - then it will be just more unwanted static in the flow of information.

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thousands of years earlier. I dare say that the author of that line intended to mean that distilled spirits (whiskey/grain alcholol) were introduced at this time, but the wording didn't mean that at all. If someone wants to rework it to mean that, fine by me...assuming it's accurate. I have no way of verifying that, but have plenty of references to conclude that the sentence prior to my change was definitely not correct. I mean, at the very least, the still-existant winery Corton-Charlemagne was founded by Charlemagne, who lived in the 8th and 9th centuries.

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compounds. Alchemical books and modern alchemy sites have many recipes for such compounds. They all start with stibnite (alkuhul), mixed with other substances and either melted (e.g. to prepare metallic antimony) or distilled (e.g. to prepare the reddish antimony trioxide, or "butter of antimony", etc). However the "alkuhul" itself is never produced by distillation, since it oxidizes readily. So it would be quite strange for its name to be assigned to "distilled essence". It may be that whomever "deduced" the folk etymology was not an alchemist himself...

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very low doses, it can appear to be a stimulant by suppressing certain inhibitory brain functions. However, as concentration increases, further suppression of brain functions produce the classic symptoms of intoxication: slurred speech, unsteady walk, disturbed sensory perceptions, and inability to react quickly. At very high concentrations, ethanol produces general anesthesia; a highly ntoxicated person will be asleep and very difficult to wake, and if awakened, unable to move voluntarily.

779:", please let me clarify. I meant that "distillation" was seen as morphologically analogous to "refinement", not that stibnite/antimony was processed by sublimation or distillation. (That's the problem with summaries — they're so short, they can leave out important distinctions or imply things they shouldn't. Sorry 'bout that.) The mutation of meaning would have taken decades or centuries and would be similar to the modern mutation of the word "computer" from its 2619: 31: 161:

rocks that "one" healthy drink and then we can talk. in fact, a lifetime of "one healthy drink a week" can be TOTALLY offset by only one night of binge drinking. in other words, among people who have engaged in drinking, there are ABSOLUTELY NONE that ive heard of who have somehow become more healthy as a result. people jog because it's healthy. people eat vegetables because they're healthy. people drink because they want to get drunk.

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alcohol dehydrogenase saturation at low BACs it doesn't mention the other metabolising pathway that plays a bigger role in alcohol metabolism at higher BACs, namely the microsomal pathway (or MEOS). In addition to being induced by alcohol (leading to pharmacokinetic interactions with other drugs), this pathway contributes significantly to the production of reactive oxygen species by alcohol.

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of written materials many centuries old, from which etymology derives its understanding of changing languages. It's easy to see how European scholarship would miss the significance of Arabic sources, but the same parochial view in the general population would encourage a belief in a non-Arabic transmutation of "alkuhul". It's even possible that the parallel changes (European

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electrochemical properties around cells (intracellular calcium is increased which weakens the electrochemical gradient across the cell's membrane -- cells, esp. neurons, die without this gradient -- which is vital to the operation of membrane pumps and channels). There is also direct damage to cell membranes from free-radicals that are produced from alcohol metabolism.

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clear and concise. Unfortunately it seemed to show the worst signs of having been "written by a committee", such that although much of the content was true and at relevant, it led to the page being very long and containing many obsure facts. It also meant that there was no overall balance, having (it seemed) never had one single person edit the whole thing.

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Most readers will not be looking for details of the iodoform reaction (which strictly is more of a reaction of methyl ketones than alcohols)! There are probably loads of things that could go on the page- and as an organic chemist I know where my sympathies lie, but we need to consider all readers. Therefore the page needs to cover material

595:) arguments have plausibility, although the "spirit" version seems more likely, as KB argues. Unfortunately, Scheel's paper doesn't provide references for his assertions. (Incidentally, Scheel states that it was the Temperance Movement — a political movement primarily consisting of women, often actively 2463:

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Alcohol levels in the brain are difficult to measure, and so blood alcohol levels are used to assess degree of intoxication. Most people begin to show measurable mental impairment at around 0.05 percent blood alcohol. At around 0.10 percent, mental impairment will show obvious physical signs, such as

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This is from a British nurse of my acquaintance - she contests the paragraph in the Toxicity section dealing with drinking ethanol to avoid methanol poisoning. I asked her because I thought that that paragraph could be useful to remember for first aid purposes, but I figured I should verify it with a

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I think the idea of a reactions section is great, thanks Andrew for all your hard work. I don't really have time to do all of the wikifying, though I did a few edits, but I was going to suggest the following: 1. My impression is that this page gets a lot of hits, much more than most chemistry pages.

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An alcohol is a compound in which a hydroxyl group (-OH) is bound to zero or more carbon atom, which in turn is bound to other hydrogen and/or carbon atoms; in other words, alcohol is characterized by one or more hydroxyl (OH) groups attached to a carbon atom of an alkyl group (hydrocarbon chain), or

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I do not think that the merge would be useful. There is a great deal of technical information about alcohols as a class (see above) that is not relevant to toxicity and there is specific toxicity information about compounds other than ethanol which might also get lost. The more reasonable approach

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Arab scholars say there is no doubt that alcohol derives from another word: al-kol (al-ghol). The old Arabic dictionaries define al-kol (al-ghol) as a genie or spirit that may take away the mind. Obviously, the last statement fits well with alcohol--it does take away the mind.--R.H. (Rachel Hajar, a

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Ethanol acts as a drug affecting the central nervous system. Its behavioral effects stem from its effects on the brain and not on the muscles or senses themselves. It is a depressant, and depending on dose, can be a mild tranquilizer or a general anesthetic. It suppresses certain brain functions. At

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NADH must be recycled to NAD for the disposal of ethanol to continue. If the amount of ethanol consumed is not great, the recycling can keep up with the disposal of ethanol. The ethanol disposal rate in a 150-pound human is about 0.5 ounce of ethanol per hour, which corresponds to 12 ounces of beer,

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Added "odorless" (because pure alcohol is odorless) and the comment about alcoholism being hotly debated because it is. Some alcohol recovery programs which don't consider it a disease but merely a pattern of disruptive behaviors which can be rapidly unleared report success rates in excess of 65%.

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The "antimony powder" argument makes use of a broadening of the concept of ore refinement into distillation, as practiced in European countries with Latin-influenced languages. This is not at all unusual in etymology. But etymology is more art than science, especially considering the relative dearth

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I am not a member of the MMORPG that is Knowledge (XXG) and do not wish to become one. Since this page is protected I can only suggest that one of you modify the first sentence of the article to mention that the hydroxyle group needs to be bound to a SATURATED carbon atom, otherwise it might not be

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Hopefully the contributing editor was just having an off day. The reference cited (^ Robert S. Gable (2004). "Comparison of acute lethal toxicity of commonly abused psychoactive substances" (reprint). Addiction 99 (6): 686–696. ) states "Non-human animal studies reported oral LD 50 doses of mice at

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alcohol. Some mention in this article as historical detail or negative example would not be unwarranted--it's probably just waiting for the motivated editor ... maybe that's you? :) Incidentally, I can't edit this discussion section and see previous text without editing the whole (long) page. Is

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I have just uploaded a major rewrite of this page covering all parts except the Etymology part (which I know little about, and which seems pretty good) and the Chemistry of alcohols part (which I will work on). It seems to me that this page is probably a page receiving many hits, so it needs to be

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3. The chemical properties section of the phys/chem props section and the chemistry (prepn & rxns) sections need to be mostly combined. When I added some content to the former, I did it mainly to correct an error, and I always felt that a separate section on chemistry would be much better- now

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are wrong about al-kuhul being powdered antimony. What they are referring to is الكحل which is indeed a black powder used medicinally (antiseptic?) and cosmetically (eye liner) from old times (and still is), and commonly used in early Islamic times. Alcohol is كحول which is spelled differently. The

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HEALTH BENIFITS? someone just mentioned the "known health benefits of alcohol"... in my humble opinion, though there may be some arguable health benifits to a unit of alcohol on its own, it is VERY irresponsible to glamorize alcohol as being somehow "healthy"... show me somebody who has yeah and mk

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The liver produces a special enzyme (alcohol dehydrogenase) that breaks down alcohols into acetaldehyde which is turned into acetic acid (another enzyme takes the acid and turns it into fatty acid, CO2 and water -- these are mostly deposited locally which leads to "beer bellies"). Chronic drinkers,

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In low amounts alcohols are not toxic. But in moderate to high amounts taken over short time periods they can be toxic. Alcohols (esp. ethanol) is quickly absorbed into the bloodstream and reaches the brain where it interferes with synaptic firing and causes the death of brain cells by changing the

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Like any other drug, I think many people would be interested to know how alcohol is absorbed (w/ and w/o other factors like food), distributed, metabolised and excreted; or at have a link to the "Metabolism and excretion" section in "Blood alcohol content". However, although the section deals with

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I just removed the line "along with the substance itself" from the sentence "It was introduced to Europe in the 12th century along with the art of distillation and the substance itself." because that was completely ridiculous. It's beyond question that beer and wine flowed freely throughout Europe

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Note also that it depends on what you mean by discovery. The beer was made then but that does not necessarily mean that they knew what was going on or what was in the beer that made them inebriated. Also, as the last one indicates, alcohol is a pretty common thing to come about so it's hard to say

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Jeff Q, I saw the story about "alkuhul" being extened to "distilled essence" in other sources too. Perhaps there is also some chemical confusion going on, besides the linguistic one. It seems that antimony was quite popular among alchemists, because it has a colorful chemistry with many volatile

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It should be noted that water is most definitely *NOT* an alcohol, making the "zero or more carbons," revised definition like calling an orange an apple, for experiment's sake. It's entirely inane: simply containing the hydroxyl group does not make a compound an alcohol, and the trend broken above

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I don't understand; surely that section is concerned with ethanol (called "alcohol" in the vernacular)? This page is concerned with family of ALCOHOLS such as methanol, menthol, things like that - even sugar counts as an alcohol. Surely it's more to add the chemistry of ethanol into the ethanol

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Webster's Third New International Dictionary, tracing the derivation of the word alcohol, states: "from ML , finely pulverized antimony used by women to darken the eyelids, from OS , from Arabic al-kuhul or al-kuhl." But according to Arab scholars, the famous dictionary is wrong. How could such a

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Ethanol is toxic, and the body begins to dispose of it immediately upon its consumption. Over 90% of it is processed by the liver. In the liver, the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme converts ethanol into acetaldehyde, which is itself toxic. Acetaldehyde is destroyed almost immediately by the aldehyde

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P.S. Please forgive the reformatting of your above comments, JS and KB, but both old and new Wiki styles use colons to provide visual separation of Talk page comments. Using bullets for separation tends to make dialogs hard to read, especially as comments often include bulleted or numbered lists.

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I have finished off the rewrite. It turns out to be only slightly shorter in terms of number of screenfulls, and slightly larger in terms of kB, but I think it flows rather better and is much more evenly balanced. I have taken out a lot of duplication. Much of the growth comes from putting in

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I rewrote much of the first few sections, taking out errors, and adding a couple of pictures to clarify the text. I decided that the general formula didn't warrant its own section, so I made this one sentence, especially as the formula doesn't apply to many alcohols such as cyclohexanol, benzyl

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The article is talking about a wronge meaning of الغول in the Quranic verse, the Quranic verse describes heaven's wine telling us that "la ghaul feha" "لا غول فيها" "no ghaul in it", but ghual here doesn't mean spirit or evil, but from the Arabic root يغتال which means, among its other meanings,

174:• The cardioprotective effects of moderate alcohol are thought to be attributed to an increase in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (which decreases LDL oxidation and removes cholesterol from arterial walls and transports it back to liver) a decrease in plasma fibrinogen concentrations --: --> 1726:

I changed the whole section, following the principle that only established common reactions should be included. I will expand the contents of this section in two new articles entitled "Oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes and ketones" and "Oxidation of Primary Alcohols to Carboxylic Acids." These

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Is the word alcohol derived from the Arabic al-kohl? Most Arab laymen would think so. In Arabic, al means "the" and kohl or kohol means "black powder or paint for eyelids." For thousands of years, the eyelid paint most widely used by Arab women has been called ethmid; it is a fine black powder

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on to their own page. These are not important enough to warrant a whole screen full of information one has to scroll though on such a busy page- as evidenced by the fact that it seems that none of the compounds listed has its own page. I moved the key info up into the "Other common alcohols"

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I won't hazard an opinion on your second sentence. IIRC, that reaction does not hapen readily in water solutions, which is where "acid" and "base" have their traditional meaning. It may happen in dry reactions but then I guess that it is a bond-swapping thing, without ionization involved. But

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The two opinions above are correct. Alcohols are "basic", as they can be protonated. (But the resulting "water" group is rather labile). They are also "acidic" but you have to fight to get the proton off (through the use of a strong base like sodium hydride). The counterexample is an alcohol

181:• Platelets from alcoholics are hypoaggregable, but after withdrawal there is an increase in platelet aggregability. This platelet rebound effect of alcohol drinking (particularly with binge drinking) could be associated with an excess of lipid peroxides known to increase platelet reactivity. 815:

This may just be hearsay, but growing up among Iranians I've always heard that it was the Persians that discovered alcohol. Since Islam grew rapidly threw Persia during the centuries mentioned above (mainly 12th century) it seems likely. I wonder if anyone has heard of this or has found any

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Don't you just love Knowledge (XXG)! What a great place it is to reach beyond the limitations of stuffy authoritative sources and test their accuracy! I read all the above references (except the Qur'an, as I don't know Arabic) to get to the bottom of this question. (By the way, please use a

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In chemistry, an alcohol is an organic compound in which a hydroxyl group (-OH) is bound to a carbon atom, which in turn is bound to other hydrogen and/or carbon atoms; in other words, alcohol is characterized by one or more hydroxyl (OH) groups attached to a carbon atom of an alkyl group

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The hydrogen atoms represented by these equations are not unattached, but are picked up by another biologically important compound, nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide (NAD), whose function is to carry hydrogen atoms. NAD is involved in both of the above processes, being converted to NADH.

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someone has done it (thanks!). But it is ludicrous for us now to have two separate sections giving two separate examples of preparation of alkyl halides. These need to be combined and unnecessary repetition removed. If I wasn't planning a holiday from Knowledge (XXG) I'd do it myself!

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Vitis vinifera was being cultivated in the Middle East by 4000 BC, and probably earlier. Egyptian records dating from 2500 BC refer to the use of grapes for wine making, and numerous Old Testament references to wine indicate the early origin and significance of the industry in the Middle

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Nice etymology write-up in the article, JS! I inserted some spaces in your Arabic-to-English sequences because, at least in the current Monobook sans-serif font and to this non-Arabic reader's eye, it's hard to distinguish between Arabic script and the equals sign, so the Roman-character

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term? It seems to be extremely obscure: the only places where I have seen it used are a 1955 article (The Hydrolysis of Sodium Alkyl Sulfates in Basic Aqueous Solution. George M. Calhoun, Robert L. Burwell, , Jr.; J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 1955; 77(24); 6441-6447.) and some class notes at

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Knowledge (XXG) has articles specifically detailing Alcohol's chemistry (ie. alcohol), and seperately, toxic effects (drunkeness, binge drinking, etcetera). Article alcoholic beverages' section entitled "chemistry and toxicology" seems to need merging, and "main article" links

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37:47 in reference to wine. The context is that wine in Paradise will be different and "Free from Gawl; nor will they suffer intoxication therefrom." Gawl is translated as "headiness", but I have seen it translated as "the stuff that makes wine intoxicating = alcohol". --

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Alcohol is clearly older than the 12th century. References to wine and mead abound in classical literature. Also, since the 7th century, alcohol has been banned in Islamic culture. Clearly, some more work and research needs to be done on this portion of the article.

2520:. Personally, I don't think the Mamaherb page on this topic adds much to the ethanol page, since it represents a minor use tested by a handful of people in an unscientific way, so personally I would oppose adding the link. However, others may think differently. 760:

BTW, the claim that kohl was prepared by sublimation or distillation seems bogus, I can't find any reference. Stibnite boils at arouns 1100 C, but unless air is excluded it will probably burn. All refs say that kohl was (still is) powdered by grinding the natural

171:• Numerous epidemiological studies have found an association between moderate alcohol intake and reduced coronary heart disease risk and also mortality rates. However, heavy and binge intake is associated with increased mortality rate and coronary atherosclerosis. 327:

Since no real chemist bothered to answer: As said in the article, "alcohols are weakly acidic, even less acidic than water". That is sort of like like saying "Jews are weakly Muslim, even less Muslim than Christians". 8-) So I suppose that your fist sentence is

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of what alcohols are like chemically, so I wrote one, and added an image to explain things. I think general aspects like acidity and nucleophilicity are dealt with best in a section like this, while specific examples of these are best covered in the chemistry

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medical professional first. Can SOMEBODY, PLEASE, verify one over the other? I know Knowledge (XXG) is not a doctor, but for Chrissakes my age group will read this and think, Oh, Johnny's dying of Listerine ingestion, we'll just get some Jager into him... --

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It is impossible to smell 100% alcohol. As soon as you do so, the water vapor from your nose will be absorbed by the alcohol, thus a 100% alcohol is definately not smellable and most likely stinks as hell considering that water does not actually add a smell

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on the preumption that perhaps in physics the definition is slightly different. What I'd be interested is to know whether water's physical characteristics can be equated to the series of alcohols ordered by the number of carbon atoms starting at zero, i.e.

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Another page said that the linguistic confusion alkuhul/alcohol led to one of the Bible verses above being translated as "women who alcoholize their eyes". I will try to find that quote (I can't recall whether the page was in English, spanish, or

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descriptive term for the displayed text of a link, rather than "this document" or "other sources". I will repeat some of the above links as needed so it's easier for someone reading this later to know what they're clicking on before they click.)

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What we'd like to receive your consent to is adding relevant links from Mamaherb.com to this article, under the External Links section (qualifying with all of Knowledge (XXG)’s guide-lines as to what should be included under this section):

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In case someone is trying to figure out which of the three kinds of alcohol he can safely drink, can we find a better phrase than "not ... poisonous"? I'm afraid someone might skip the rest of the paragraph and assume it was safe to drink!

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an unsteady walk. Slurred speech shows up at around 0.15 percent. Unconsciousness results by 0.4 percent. Above 0.5 percent, the breathing center of the brain or the beating action of the heart can be anesthetized, resulting in death.

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Alcohol comes from الكحل(Arabic), then Old Spanish took it (introduction to the Latin spelling as "alcohol"), introduced to Medieval Latin and New Latin, then taken by the French language, and finally taken by the English language.

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i dont feel like this article is complete. there should be a part with alcohol used as a beverage.this is definetely missing. i know there's another article for that. but they shoud be a short thing about this on the main article

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I'm a bit rusty on my chemistry so I'll abstain from adding myself, but could someone include the boiling point of alcohol. From everything I've seen it's about 79.5°C but I'm not sure if it varies for different types of alcohol.

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Doesn't there need to be a section explaining the correlation between electron withdrawing groups and the acidity of alcohols? The effect is much more well-known for carboxylic acids, but it also exists for alcohols. See McMurry

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Because the two ingredients necessary to alcoholic fermentation are widely spread and always appear together, civilizations in almost every part of the world developed some form of alcoholic beverage very early in their

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stibnite is mentioned? Also, I found a reference to a "Mesopotamian name for eye-paint, guhlu, usually translated as stibium powder… passed into Arabic as kuhl". It mentions no period or specific language or people. --

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There really should be a subsection describing the known health benefits of alcohol. not just red wine as an antioxident, but specifically ehtonoals effect on "blood thinning", helping people with high blood presure...

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which is pictured, but the pictured image doesn't have hydrogen atoms at the ends of the bonds from the C. Indeed, in organic chemistry, it is common for a bond with no specified terminal atom to be considered a

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This is the wrong page to add this; if you read the article, you'll see it's not about the same topic at all - it's about organic compounds containing a hydroxy group. You should instead ask this question at

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How exactly can any fool smell pure alcohol? As soon as you expose it to the air it will absorb water. It requires a water-free environment - something that kinda renders your sense of smell non-existent.

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Jeremiah 4:30 tu autem vastata quid facies cum vestieris te coccino cum ornata fueris monili aureo et pinxeris stibio oculos tuos frustra conponeris contempserunt te amatores tui animam tuam quaerent

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I work with ethanol regularly (I'm an organic chemist, I used some in the lab about 3 hours ago), and to my nose it does have a smell (albeit quite mild). I can't see anything about smell on the

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important information that was missing before- such as on dehydration to alkenes, acylation by RCOCl/py. I also added short verbal explanations where before there was just a list of equations.

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A lot of words came to English from French (France), and many of this words came from other sources you should mention. So it'd fair to say the whole route words have done to come to English.

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You are right about the freezing point but not so on the boiling point. It would depend on the type of alcohol in question but in general the boiling point is lower than that of water. See

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In fact, alcohols are toxic to organic cells in nearly whatever amount, but it's not much of a problem for human beings except in "moderate to high amounts taken over short time periods". -

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which sounds like a modern word for antimony — probably not the Biblical reference, presumably for stibnite ore. Where did you come up with the Hebrew connection? Do you know where in the

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Most alcohol in the lab is about 5% water. I don't know if the water would add a smell or not, but it seems unlikely. Try the Alcohol in a bio lab, which is supposed to be 100% pure.

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Compare that to the average program's rate of between 25% and 40%. The rates of most programs that consider it a disease are generally less than 20% with some averaging less than 5%.

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I plan to do a major rewrite of the chemistry section in the next few days, but thought I should put up what I had so far. Please add any comments you have right after this message.

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Some people find it helpful if these suggestions are shown on this talk page, rather than on another page. To do this, just add {{User:LinkBot/suggestions/Alcohol}} to this page. —

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Also, one shouldn't insert one's comments between two pieces of a single posting (or between the text and the signature) because it makes it hard to tell who said what later on. --

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An interesting idea, though I strongly doubt that physics would use a different definition of alcohol than chemistry (which as every physicist knows is just sub-field of physics).

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however, so tax this metabolic pathway that things go awry; fatty acids build up as plaques in the capilaries around liver cells and those cells begin to die. This is the cause of

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Ezekiel 23:40 miserunt ad viros venientes de longe ad quos nuntium miserant itaque ecce venerunt quibus te lavisti et circumlevisti stibio oculos tuos et ornata es mundo muliebri

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used it, and it might be that it was known to be Sumeria and Babylonia simply because they kept better records than the early peoples who didn't have writing, in Africa, for -

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and 1st thought that this must be physically impossible (but the article cites 2 other cases), and 2nd thought to check Knowledge (XXG). But there's nothing here. Any help?

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inability of some Western writers to understand the consonental system of Semitic language and distinguish Semitic short vowels and long vowels have caused much confusion. --

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It is my understanding that all alcohols would have similar effects, but I think you are right anyway since the only onw that is really consumed in any quantity is ethanol. --

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I re-did the image in the properties section, so that there are other structures besides the line-angle formula. This should make the structures more readable for beginners.

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I find the phrase "not directly poisonous" misleading. I'm sitting next to a medical doctor (a native speaker of Japanese), who pointed out that methanol causes blindness.

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In my understanding (and from what I've been taught at my Chemistry courses), Alcohols are not acids, rather bases, and when dissolved in water raise the amount of -OH ions

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decreased platelet aggregation, increased fibrinolysis, increased NO production, increased insulin sensitivity, and antioxidant activity by re-reducing vitamins with NADH.

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IIRC these are salts, which give upon hydrolysis ethanol and an innocent inorganic salt (in general an oxide). Would be interesting to have an article on that. --

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I also took out a big chunk of specific chemistry from the properties section and put it in the chemistry section further down. I felt what was need instead was a

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Alcohols can indeed be either weakly acidic or basic, just like water. They have a pKa of around 16-19, which means that in the presence of a strong base such as

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I thought I remembered that alcohols not only have a higher boiling point but also a lower freezing point than water. Wrong? It's not discussed in the article.

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I changed "odorless, colorless liquid" in the introduction paragraph to "colorless liquid with a strong smell" because as far as I know, ethanol isn't odorless.

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Not true. The ROH will have a tendency to accept a proton from the water molecule, leaving an -OH with a negative charge, but this is a very weak tendency.

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confirms Al-Razi as the discoverer but says that the "al-ghoul"="the devil" etymology was invented by an US anti-alcohol movement for propaganda purposes.

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Etymology: New Latin, from Medieval Latin, powdered antimony, from Old Spanish, from Arabic al-kuḥul the powdered antimony, from kuḥl kohl Date: 1672

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As soon as possible, I will add in this section a few lines about the oxidative breakage of 1,2-diols and the transformation of diols into lactones.

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family does exhibit lower melting point/higher boiling points than water. MP/BP are not the only target characteristics of an antifreeze though--see

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conjugated to an aromatic ring, which would be more acidic because the negatively charged alkoxide anion has its charge delocalized through the ring.

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Under the existing toxicity section, I tried to clean up the wording of the "treatment of methanol poisoning". It could use a bit more work. The

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page, which is the main page about this compound. What do others say? Regarding alcoholism, the proper place for that discussion is probably the

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2Kings 9:30 venit Hieu Hiezrahel porro Hiezabel introitu eius audito depinxit oculos suos stibio et ornavit caput suum et respexit per fenestram

2028:. Not notable enough in my opinion. Although the term has some logic to it, most chemists I know simply call the methyl group, well, methyl. -- 95:

of the liver. The liver is part of the body's filtration system and if it is damaged then certain toxins build up -- this leads to symptoms of

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In my opinion, no other alcohol oxidations should be included, as they would possess a very minor importance in Synthetic Organic Chemistry.

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I started a new article related to Alcohols entitled Oxidation of Primary Alcohols to Carboxylic Acids. I hope to finish it in a few weeks.

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Whichever it may be, I don't think the transliteration is right. Shouldn't الغول‎ be "al-ġul," not "al-ġuḥl," since there's no ح involved?

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4 ounces of wine, or 1 ounce of hard liquor. The figure shows how the blood alcohol level changes with time for various doses of ethanol.

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Here's a good recent review article that elaborates on what's currently out there to suggest beneficial/detrimental effects of alcohol:

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was to be expected. It is that carbon that has been omitted from the revised definition which is essential to the alcoholic character.

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and on another note, even that "one healthy drink" of alcohol is not nearly as "healthy" as one drink of water, orange juice, etc...

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In Table 1 on page 689 of the cited reference, it states that the oral rat LD50 is 10300 mg/kg, which is what the article states.

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They also cancel out acids in reactions with them, since the -OH from alcohol bonds with the hydrogen from acids to form water.

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An alcohol is characterized by one or more hydroxyl (OH) groups attached to the carbon atom of alkyl groups of a hydrocarbon.

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It seems legit, so the best thing would maybe be to wait for more news/citations for this product before writing anything? --

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article, not into the family article? The fact that you use the word alcohol as a singular suggests that you haven't read

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Ethanol b.p. 78.29 °C - CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 85th Ed. And yes, it does vary for different alcohols. --

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highly irritant and corrosive substance have anything to do with a commonly used cosmetic? Alcohol will burn the eye.

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Thank you, Jorge Stolfi and KB! You folks did all the research. ☺ All I did was read it, summarize it, and comment. --

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page. This article is supposed to be about the functional group in organic chemistry, not about alcoholism! Thanks,

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group, rendering the image as tBuOH, tert-butanol. Should the image or the legend be corrected. Spuddddddd 12Jun09

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supporting evidence. I'm not suggesting it is true, but growing up everyone I was around took this as a fact. -

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If you're getting the "kohl preparation by sublimation/distillation" from my statement above about "European

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does. Alcohols will NEVER raise the amount of -OH ions in water, they are neutral if tested with pH paper.

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article for other features and the early use of alcohol for this purpose. Note that the common antifreeze

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2. Personally I prefer organic reactions drawn on a program like IsisDraw (you can see my contributions in

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pulverized from mountain stones. Some men, due to ancient belief that kohl protects vision, use it also.

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The 109 degress applies to the . Lone pairs on an atom typically generate angles of 107 or 104 degrees.

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Home Remedies: 19,614 (growing by 100+ every day). Natural Ingredients: 1,414 Conditions Treated: 1,324

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I hope that this edit makes the page a lot clearer and "punchier". Here is a summary of what I did:

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connotation of "accountant" to its current exclusive connotation of a machine whose most noticeable

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BTW, from those quotes it would seems that kohl in Israel was a fairly late imported "perversion".

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article has information in slightly greater detail about the treatment of methanol poisoning. --

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Surely you'd agree Mamaherb.com's content is very value-adding in this External links section.

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about "ghoul" gives the Arabic translation as "غول=(alcohol, bogey, goblin, hobgoblin, ogre)".

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that it (both 100% and 95% with water) has a definite smell which, to me, is quite strong. --

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chemists have invented some weird definitions of acid and base since I went through college...

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If the liquor is 40% achohol by volume then it's 1/2 oz per pound of body weight. for a rat.

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I've tried to fix it, though someone seems to have removed the contradiction tag already. --

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It should be noted that this article isn't the easiest to digest after consuming alcohol. --

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Jorge, I've been trying to fill in the Hebrew reference, but I've only found the following:

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Jeffq, I have to leave now, but I found these references to "stibio" in the Latin Vulgate:

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Under Occurence in nature, why does it say (New Species) next to Astrophysical maser?

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for alcohol, الكحول = ... (

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Anyway, some numbers, in the order you specified (H2O, CH3OH, C2H5OH, C4H9OH, C5H11OH):

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Is water itself an alcohol according to the chemical/physical definition of an alcohol?

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article at all! Most alcohols will usually cause death or irritation, not drunkenness!

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use is communication. And thanks for the Latin Vulgate quotes! I'll check them out. --

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frequent contributor to the Culture section, is a medical doctor working in Qatar. )

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is formed by the simple acyclic alcohols, the general formula for which is CnH2n+1OH

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I would suggest that further discussion of this intriguing topic be moved either to

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hides, So, the verse means "it doesn't contain the material that hides the mind" --

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transliteration looks jammed up against the Arabic. Thanks again for your work. --

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Perhaps in volume also (13 ml/kg or .2 oz/lb) Ethanol's mass is 789mg per ml. SAP

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is the phrase "Alcohol is used to become intoxicated and/or seduce women." needed

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If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the

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If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the

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ion, so it does not react in a simple way with acids to form water the way

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then under this definition H-OH, i.e. water, would be the simplest alcohol.

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A better answer: there is no need to go so far afield for figures--see

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I suggest you add a stub "buthanol" and re-direct it to this article.

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Nothing is mentioned of the effect of rapid proton exchange with NMR.

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Kevin Scheel's "Alcohol the Chemical" paper, p. 8, 1st full paragraph

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Before 6000 BC, beer was made from barley in Sumeria and Babylonia.

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the others have the al-kuhul story. It sounds pretty weird, but...

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As for the etymology, I have always heard that "alcohol" came from

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The legend beneath the image of a generic alcohol says that it is

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Is it? see above, someone commented that pure alcohol is oderless

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3rd ed p21 the COH bond angle in methanol is 107-109 degrees.

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Does Vodka consumption have an impact on the potency of a guy?

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New Article: Oxidation of Primary Alcohols to Carboxylic Acids

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My name is Rukmani Agrawal and I'm working for Mamaherb.com (

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was introduced into the English language circa 1543 from the

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For what its worth. The word "Ghawl" غول is mentioned in the

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RO- Na+). However in the presence of a strong acid such as

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Should we add a image showing how ketone form into a diol?

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Here's some interesting info I thought was worth including:

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would be to create cross references in the two documents.

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dehydrogenase enzyme, which converts it to acetate ions.

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maybe they mean methanol, which is why its poisonous?

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that a bug or a feature? Anyone else seeing this? -

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http://en.wikipedia.org/Acid-base_reaction_theories

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they will protonate, for example ROH + H --: -->

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