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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: net.med,net.college
Subject: Re: Re: prevention of hangovers
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Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 01:12:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 20 01:12:40 1986
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> > > 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.
>
>    He means "absolute ethanol": ethanol without *any* impurites. You 
> use it in organic synthesis.

	Pure ethanol - with no denaturants - is a rare commodity for lab
use, and is a restricted sale item.  All other ethanol for lab use has one
or more of the following denaturants: ethyl acetate, methy iso-butyl ketone,
iso-propyl alcohol, propanol, and gasoline.
	Ethanol with the following labels contains only 95% ethanol and is
STILL DENATURED:

	Ethanol, Anhydrous
	Ethanol, Absolute
	Ethanol, 95%
	Ethyl Alcohol, Anhydrous
	Ethyl Alcohol, Absolute
	Ethyl Alcohol, 95%
	Reagent Alcohol, Anhydrous
	Reagent Alcohol, Absolute
	Reagent Alcohol, 95%

	If you read the bottle and/or the manufacturer's (like J. T. Baker,
Mallinckrodt, MCB, etc.) data sheets, you will discover the true composition.
	The moral of the above is: don't drink ANY laboratory alcohol under
ANY circumstances!

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