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From: marco@andromeda.UUCP (Louis Marco)
Newsgroups: net.med,net.college
Subject: Re: prevention of hangovers
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Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 13:48:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 17 13:48:32 1986
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In article <1198@princeton.UUCP>, jsl@princeton.UUCP (Jong Lee) writes:
> > Friends who are organic chemists claimed that alcohol does not cause
> > hangovers but the impurities found with alcohol cause hangovers.
> > They always drank lab alcohol and never had hangovers.
> 
> doesn't this belong in net.jokes?  by lab alcohol, you don't mean
> methyl alcohol, but grain?  wouldn't that mean if you drank 190
> proof grain, you'd be home free?  too bad it's impossible to get
> 100% pure alcohol!  your organic chemist friends must have a good
> sense of humor.
> 
> 
> *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***


   He means "absolute ethanol": ethanol without *any* impurites. You 
use it in organic synthesis.

                                         A former chem major.