PS282 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Referendums In Australia, Distilled Beverage, Binge Drinking
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Alcohol: most popular, and frequently used drug consumed recreationally, high school and university. History: drinking started by making beer like substance. How much tax does the government collect on alcohol. How much alcohol is the really: slide stats, slide, per month, 1 case of beer, a little less than a 26 ox of hard liquor, about 1 bottle of wine. Three basic categories of alcoholic beverages: beer, wine, approximately 4. 5 percent alcohol, approximately 12-14 percent alcohol, approx 40-50 percent alcohol, distilled spirits (liquor. + yeast: ethanol alcohol _ carbon dioxide (max 12* to 14%) Distillation: a physical process by which chemicals are separated on the basis of differences in their boiling points. In the process of making liquor, fermented liquids are boiled and then cooled to produce higher alcohol content: slide on process, you can"t drink pure lab ethanol, its toxic with benzene in it.
