Alcohol is consumed orally and depending on how strong the alcohol‚ your weight‚ gender‚ or you ethnicity determines how fast it travels through your body. Alcohol is classified as a depressant because it slows the body down. It affects your motor skills such as talking and perception. Alcohol travels through the mouth down the esophagus directly into the stomach. There it is absorbed into the stomach and travels into the bloodstream. According to For Dummies.com says that a majority of the alcohol
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Borohydride Reduction of Vanillin to Vanillyl Alcohol Goal To perform a sodium borohydride reduction of an aldehyde to produce an alcohol. Reading and Working Ahead Your discussion should include a mechanism for this reaction. Review: OP 12 – Vacuum filtration OP 28 – Melting point (using Mel-Temp®) Procedure Notes Calculate the necessary mass of vanillin and sodium borohydride for the procedure below. Also calculate theoretical yield of vanillyl alcohol. You will not design you own procedure
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Alcohol Abuse is dangerous for Everybody It is well known that alcohol abuse turns into a serious problem in our society because of several facts. More and more people‚ especially young people‚ drink a lot of alcohol; as a result‚ they don’t know when they have to stop and the alcohol use turns into an alcohol abuse. The question‚ which I ask myself‚ is: How is it possible that alcohol turns into a serious problem in our generation and which are the flash points? First of all‚ in every country
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much stronger than those of the biblical era and much more likely to produce imperilment of judgment and drunkenness. Today‚ 5 ounces of wine equals 12 ounces of beer which equals 1.5 ounces of whiskey‚ such drinks are approximately three times the alcohol contained in an 8-ounce cup of diluted wine in biblical times. Luke 12:45‚ “Drunkenness will cause a person not to be ready for the Lord’s return.” This is bad because we must be ready for no one knows the day or hour. Alcoholic beverages today provide
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Alcohol Abuse among Hispanics Hispanics are the largest and most rapidly growing ethnic group in the United States‚ making up about 17 percent of the population‚ or more than 50 million people. Research shows that drinking patterns among Hispanics are different from those of non-Hispanic Whites and other ethnic or racial groups (National Institute of Alcohol and Alcoholism‚ 2015). Hispanics’ drinking problem is associated with low socioecomic status such as poverty and low education‚ acculturation
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Alcohol has many effects on the body‚ especially the teenage body. Alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence are not only adult problems -- they also affect a significant number of adolescents and young adults between the ages of 12 and 20‚ even though drinking under the age of 21 is illegal (Dimeff 204). Alcohol is created when grains‚ fruits‚ or vegetables are fermented. Fermentation is a process that uses yeast or bacteria to change the sugars in the food into alcohol. Fermentation is used to
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actually think that it depends on the specific law. For example‚ something such as a drinking age law is put in place for a good reason. There has been research proven in the developmental psychology field and even in the biopsychology field that our prefrontal cortex does not fully mature until our early twenties. Our prefrontal cortex is responsible for our executive decision making‚ planning‚ and other complex cognitive behavior. I think laws like this should be followed for that specific
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To understanding the metabolism of alcohol‚ we should know that what is alcohol‚ how is it affect human body. Alcohol is being considered one of the most commonly used drugs because it has adverse impacts on human’s health through how it’s metabolized. Alcohol is a compound of hydrogen‚ carbon and oxygen‚ which can be combined in many different ways. The commonest as known as ethyl ethanol‚ which is a specific alcohol compound (C2H5OH) and formed from the fermentation of yeast‚ sugars
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Effects of alcohol on brain functioning and neurotransmitters The consumption of alcohol can cause an effect on several parts of the brain including the hypothalamus‚ pituitary gland‚ medulla and the limbic system (How alcohol works 2008). Each sector responds differently to alcohol‚ causing changes in specific behaviors. Cerebral cortex The role of the cerebral cortex is to decipher information received from the senses‚ processing thought‚ speech‚ and memory and indicating the majority of
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Alcohol is a depressant that slowly begins to have an effect on the functions of the body. The alcohol quickly enters the bloodstream and then is carried throughout the body. The effect of excessive use of alcohol affects every system in the body‚ especially the brain‚ liver‚ and heart. These effects it has on the body is significant. The alteration of behavior is the first effect of alcohol affecting the brain. The brain is the central control system that controls muscle movement and memory process
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