Can you give me 10 alchol facts?

Answer 1

Alcohols react with carboxylic acids to form esters.

Answer 2

Here are some interesting facts:

• Alcohol is the waste produced by yeast when they eat sugars. The waste builds up in the fermenting mass until it is too poisonous for them to continue to eat. We then strain out their stunned bodies and package their sewage for human consumption. It is like throwing the cows away and eating the manure.
• Almost every culture has developed a way to make consumable alcohol from anything they have handy. We make it from grain and grapes, the Japanese from rice, and the Mongolians from fermented mare's milk.
• Suju, a cheap Korean alcohol, is rumored to be recovered from industrial byproducts.
• Alcohols with even numbers of carbons are usually safer to drink than those with odd numbers of carbon. However only ethanol seems to have a pleasant enough taste and be safe enough to be popular
• Tradition has it that Lord Nelson was sent back to England in a keg of rum to preserve the body. As the story goes, thirsty sailors tapped the keg to drink the rum not knowing it was already occupied.
• The Bloody Caesar, a drink with vodka and clamato juice, was developed in Calgary Alberta
• One glass of milk can give a person a .02 blood alcohol concentration (BAC) on a Breathalyzer test. That's enough in some states for persons under age 21 to lose their driver's license and be fined. The body produces alcohol from many of the foods it eats.
• Alcohol is used as an ingredient in perfumes.
• The alcohol that we drink is a clear liquid called ethanol
• Other types of alcohol that we can't drink are used to make shoe polish and car de-icers
• Although many people think that alcohol stimulates them it also slows down the working of the brain
• The drinker will start to lose control of their body, judgement, and emotions
• The liver cleans out the alcohol
• Alcohol harms unborn babies

• As Magellan prepared to sail around the world in 1519, he spent more on Sherry than on weapons.
• The U.S. Marines' first recruiting station was in a bar.
• Moderate drinking (beer, wine and spirits) is associated with better health and greater longevity than is either abstaining from alcohol or abusing it.
• Bourbon is the official spirit of the United States, by act of Congress.
• "Whiskey" is the international aviation word used to represent the letter "w."
• Most vegetable, and virtually all fruit juices, contain alcohol.
• There is a cloud of alcohol in outer space with enough alcohol to make four trillion-trillion drinks. It's free for the taking. . . but it's 10,000 light years away.
• The Mayflower, well-known for bringing the Pilgrims to the New World, ordinarily transported alcohol beverage between Spain and England.
• Abraham Lincoln owned a liquor store license.
• George Washington was his new nation's first large whiskey distiller.
• Alcohol is a depressant. That doesn't mean that it depresses peoples' mood; it means that it slows down breathing, heartbeat, and similar body functions.

The favorite cocktails of several former U.S. presidents are reported to include:

- Gin and tonic (Gerald Ford)

- Martini (Herbert Hoover)

- Rum and coke (Richard Nixon)

- Scotch or brandy (Franklin Roosevelt)

- Bourbon (Harry Truman)

Answer 3

There's only one thing to say out of all of those facts IT'S BAD DON'T DRINK EVER