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How much of a role does elevation play in moonshine distillation and boiling point adjustment? The Ozarks are at only about 1000 feet, but Reno, Nevada, is at 4,500 feet. Do moonshiners in Reno need to adjust their distillation temperatures?

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Distillation is a process used to separate two liquids that have different boiling points. The idea is to heat a mixture to a temperature where one liquid vaporizes while the other staying in liquid form. The vapor is passed through a cooling tube, which causes it to condense and be collected in a separate container. While not a perfect system to use with liquids that have rather similar boiling points, it is effecting for separating substances like alcohols from water.

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Propanol
A "primary alcohol" with the formula CH₃CH₂CH₂OH. It is thought to have similar affect on the human body as ethanol, but with 2 - 4  times the potency. It is often used in medical inhalers called "nebulizers." It's high-octane properties would also make it a good addition to vehicle fuel, but it is a rare alcohol and expensive to synthesize, so it is not used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Propanol
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https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/1-propanol#section=Top

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Ethanol is metabolized to acetyl aldehyde, which is a known carcinogen. It is then metabolized to aldehyde, which can be used in cellular respiration to generate NADH for the ETC.

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Your body weight, BMI, age, sex, and the size of your liver can affect alcohol metabolism. The next time I am drinking and someone tells me to slow down I will just respond with "don't worry, I have a really big liver."

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Due to lower intermolecular forces within ethanol, ADH will metabolize it first. Methanol poisoning can be treated by providing more ethanol and essentially "distracting" ADH till the methanol is excreted unmetabolized. Pretty amazing.

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Ethanol --> Acetaldehyde --> Acetate

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Gender, Age, and BMI of an individual

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Ethanol is a competitive inhibitor for methanol. The body has a higher affinity for ethanol than methanol, so the ethanol actually outcompetes the methanol, causing the methanol to not be broken down until after it leaves the body

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I researched a bit on butanol, and was interested to find that its main use is as a source of biofuel (https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/emerging_biobutanol.html) This was interesting to me because I did my last project on transesterification of fats and also stumbled upon its impact on biodiesels.

When researching direct impacts on humans, I came across this NIH source (https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/a?dbs+hsdb%3A%40term+%40DOCNO+48) that really scared me. Butanol is really dangerous for humans to come in contact with at concentrations as low as 50ppm.

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Gender also affects metabolism- men metabolize alcohol faster than women

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Distillation is the process of separating liquids. Since ethanol has a lower boiling point, it will evaporate first and can be collected via condensation in another flask.

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Ethanol is converted enzymatically into aldehyde, however, because it is potentially damaging to the body, it is converted to acetate by dehydrogenase so that we can use acetate to make NADH and by result ATP

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A factor that could effect alcohol metabolism is the size of the liver

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Ethanol is used as a treatment for methanol poisoning because it delays methanol metabolism until it is eliminated from the patients system.

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Research another alcohol (other than methanol/ethanol) and describe its effect in the human body.

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Research another alcohol (other than methanol/ethanol) and describe its effect in the human body.

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What are the chemical transitions after ethanol is ingested in the human body?

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What are the chemical transitions after ethanol is ingested in the human body?

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What are some factors that could affect alcohol metabolism?

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What are some factors that could affect alcohol metabolism?

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Explain why the treatment for methanol poisoning is to use ethanol.

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Explain why the treatment for methanol poisoning is to use ethanol.

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