NESC 3237 Lecture Notes - International System Of Units, Greyout, Specific Gravity
17 Apr 2013
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Top 10 alcohol consuming countries in world are in eastern europe. Happens in nature with anything that contains sugar: yeast interact with these sugars and convert them into ethanol, most alcohol content you can get by this is 15%, because yeast will die at concentrations higher than this. Boiling point of alcohol lower, so you boil fermented alcohol, collect vapors and then continue distilling until you reach concentration you desire. Humans have been brewing alcohol since humans took up agriculture about 10,000 years ago. Usually ingested orally, iv can be done, but the volume needed too large to really work. Can be measured in a few ways: percent, metric. 80mg alcohol/100ml whole blood: si units. 3 distinct phases for the blood alcohol concentration curve: ascending limb (absorption phase, plateau phase, elimination stage (descending limb) Rate of absorption of alcohol increases as concentration increases, to a point, then it decreases. Previous drinking history can increase absorption rate.
