about alcohol‚ risk factors will likely decrease. Everyone should understand just exactly what alcohol is‚ as well as how the body reacts to consumption. Alcohol is another name for the chemical compound ethanol‚ which is produced by the fermentation of yeast‚ sugars‚ and starches (NIDA). Ethanol is a depressant‚ meaning that shortly after it is consumed‚ it will begin to slow down the central nervous system (NIDA). The central nervous system controls functions such as reaction time‚ balance‚ and
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was ethanoic acid. The second smell‚ a sweet smell‚ marked the presence of the second product‚ the alcohol. The alcohol formed was ethanol. This reaction is represented by the following equation: CH3COOCH2CH3 (l) + 2HCl (aq) CH3COOCH (aq?) + CH2CH3OH (aq?) During the alkaline hydrolysis of esters‚ the first sweet smell indicated the presence of the alcohol ethanol. A pungent smell then indicated that ethanoic acid was formed. However‚ due to the presence of excess sodium hydroxide‚ this acid
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beverage can be classified into two ways; 1. Alcoholic Beverage 2. Non- Alcoholic Beverage What is Alcoholic Beverage? * Alcohol is a colorless‚ odorless and volatile liquid. * It is a potable liquid containing ethyl alcohol or ethanol(C2H5OH) of 0.5 per cent more by volume. * The percentage of alcohol in a drink varies from 0.5 to 95 per cent ‚ depending upon the method of preparation. * Alcohol is obtained by fermenting a liquid containing sugar. * The word alcohol
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This affects the intermolecular attractions because the more polar a molecule is the stronger its attraction to other polar molecules will be. The next two alcohols were ethanol and propanol which followed the predicted pattern at 13.2 ºC and 5.3 ºC respectively. Butanol had the smallest change in temperature‚ 2.5 ºC which indicates much less evaporation. This leads to believe that butanol has the strongest intermolecular
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Lab 3: Grignard Synthesis Objective: The goal of this lab is to synthesize a Grignard reagent from bromobenzene and magnesium metal in diethyl ether. This same Grignard reagent would then be used to prepare a tertiary alcohol and then purify and characterize the product. Table of Reagents: Name Chemical formula Melting Point Boiling Point Density Safety Hazards Diethyl ether C4H10O -116.3°C 34.6°C 0.7134 g/ml Flammable Bromobenzene C6H5Br -30.6°C 156°C 1.5 g/ml
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The Effects of Drinking Alcohol Alcohol also known as ethanol contains high amounts of intoxicating supplements that are very dangerous to the body. If consumed in high amounts or at a young age‚ it can severely damage parts of the body such as the liver‚ brain‚ and it can eventually lead to death. If people are not careful they can become addicted to alcohol‚ due to it being classified as a drug. Most young adults‚ aging from fifteen to twenty‚ do not take their first drink out of their own
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synthesized as per literature procedure. 2 was synthesized by reacting 1-methy pyrazole-4-boronic pinacol ester with 1 by suzuki-coupling‚ the final product TPC was synthesized by treating with malononitrile in the presence of piperidine as a base and ethanol as solvent. The detailed synthesis procedure given in the experimental section. The structure and purity of TPC was unambiguously confirmed by 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy. The synthesized TPC is red in color and appeared non-fluorescent‚ the fluorescence
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INTRODUCTION: All cells need to have a constant energy supply. The two processes by which this energy is attained from photosynthetic materials to form ATP are cellular respiration and fermentation. (Hyde‚2012). Fermentation is a way of harvesting chemical energy that does not require oxygen. (Reece et al. 2012). When the body is deprived of oxygen it will then begin to meet its energy needs through the slow process of fermentation. In our lab we investigated alcoholic fermentation by using
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28‚ 2014 Isolation of Chlorophyll and Carotenoid Pigments from Spinach Purpose The purpose of this experiment was to isolate ß-carotene‚ chlorophyll-A‚ and chlorophyll-B from spinach using column chromatography. Spinach was dehydrated using ethanol‚ and the pigments were extracted with dichloromethane. The spinach extracts were dried using CaCl2. Then‚ the solid pigments were run through a column using a non-polar solvent‚ hexane. The polar absorbent material in the column separated the different
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chemistry‚ alcohol is an organic compound that has a lot of uses in it. There are many different types of alcohol such as methanol‚ ethanol and propanol. They have different types of usage. Generally‚ alcohol can use for drinking‚ in medical use‚ as a solvent‚ as fuel‚ as additives inside the cosmetics as well as a cleaning agent. Normal use of alcohol in beverages is ethanol. Nowadays‚ there is very common that a restaurant or an establishment serving alcoholic beverages like beers‚ cocktails‚ wines
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