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- From: pfinerty@nyx.cs.du.edu (fun fun fun boy)
- Subject: how one becomes drunk
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.210655.17176@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Summary: i am no artist
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 21:06:55 GMT
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- this is how ethanol C2H5OH makes you drunk. i hope i can draw all this shit
- ok. first off, here's what EtOH really looks like (really! i've seen it!)
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- H-O H
- \ /
- H--C----C--H EtOH
- / \
- H H
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- you can imagine the groups bonded to the each of the carbons forming a sort
- of tripod shape if placed on end. each of the postions is available to each
- of the groups and there is rapid rotation about the C--C bond.
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- the point of this is that the molecule is lopsided. it is unbalanced. due
- to brownian motion molecules are always moving in when in solution. but,
- because the EtOH molecule is lopsided it swings sort of like a pendulum and
- as such is always crashing in to other things, like the inside of your head
- for instance. it this this banging around which makes you feel light headed
- and sort of dizzy. it is also what causes the hangover you might get the
- next day. it's really no surprise that peoples heads hurt the next day when
- they had a lopsided molecule crashing around their head all night.
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- PJF--->Biochem. grad student
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