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From: phil@isieng.UUCP (Phil Gustafson)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: prevention of hangovers
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Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 14:12:07 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 16 14:12:07 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.

There's an important reservation to this.  Lab alcohol commonly comes in
two purities: 95% and 100%.  The former is ethanol and distilled water.
Its concentration is determined by the relative vapor pressures of the 
compounds -- it's the strongest alcohol one can make by distillation.
The 100% (absoulute) alcohol is made by treating the 95% stuff with benzine.
The benzine dissolves in the water (or the other way around) and is separated
mechanically.

Of course, there are trace amounts of very toxic and carcinogenic benzine
left.

If you're going to quaff lab alcohol, use the 95% variety.  And bear in
mind that it's extremely illegal.

	phil