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- From: dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,sci.chem,sci.med,alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: how one becomes drunk
- Message-ID: <73284@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 18:41:16 PST
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- References: <1993Jan9.185837.14435@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- >> >you became drunk faster on the alcohols that had a greater number of carbon
- s
- >> >then this would add support for your theory.
- >> >--scott
- >>
- >> go for it. get back to me after you've tested isopropanol, butanol, and
- >> isoamyl alcohol. (you could try phenol too but it's not so lopsided, it
- >> could be the control)
-
- >I can't say for the others, but you can only get dead after consumption of
- >(a lot of) isopropanol. You cannot get drunk on it.
-
- >Darin Cowan - cowan@cerianthus.pinetree.org
-
- I'm not so sure about that: a friend (now a nurse) says that a long
- time ago, when she was a young, crazy, penniless radical, she used
- to drink rubbing (isopropyl) alcohol, in Coke to make it more or
- less palatable... I don't know how much, how often, or for how long!
-
- Dave
- dbell@cup.portal.com
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