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Is there alcohol in outer space?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Large interstellar clouds of vinegar have been found in space. Alcohol could also be somewhere in the universe.

Being the discoverer of interstellar acetic acid (vinegar), I can for certain say that vinegar is a very minor component in these clouds, so the original answer is a bit misleading in that it sounds like vinegar is all these clouds are made of which is quite untrue. In fact, there is only 1 vinegar molecule for every 1 billion diatomic hydrogen molecules in these clouds. In these same clouds both methyl and ethyl alcohol were discovered decades ago. Methanol is actually a relatively abundant molecule in molecular clouds. So short answer, yes.

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14y ago

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