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- From: eesnyder@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Eric E. Snyder)
- Subject: Re: how one becomes drunk
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- kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
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- >Isopropanol is oxidized to acetone by the body, and does some damage to
- >the kidney. Acetone is a very lopsided molecule. Methanol is oxidized
- >to formic acid, which is also extremely lopsided.
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- >One thing which does lend some evidence toward rejection of the original
- >theory is propylene glycol, which is much more lopsided than any of
- >the other alcohols discussed.
-
- What in the hell is a "lopsided" molecule? It seems to be the word of the
- day in the previous posting.
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