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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: how one becomes drunk
- Followup-To: talk.bizarre,sci.med,sci.chem
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 02:08:23 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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- References: <1993Jan8.210655.17176@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan12.013810.26331@sol.UVic.CA>
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- In article <1993Jan12.013810.26331@sol.UVic.CA> rigler@dao.nrc.ca writes:
- >
- >The mechanism(s) responsible for hangovers are less well understood,
- >but are thought to involve the spontaneous decay of carbon nuclei.
-
- If this were the case, then obviously alcohols with longer carbon chains
- would cause worse hangovers, owing to the greater opportunity for
- spontaneous decay due to the greater number of carbon atoms available.
- This, also is easily tested. Verification of this theory is not difficult.
-
- This theory can also be easily reconciled with the theory of lopsided
- molecules as well. I have yet to see any firm experimental evidence
- cited against Finerty's theory.
- --scott
-