Ethanol

... ask if its turned off after use (3) if it needs to warm up before use (5) Is there a sign-up sheet? Bench maintenance • Daily: wipe down with 70% ethanol. HOW TO SET UP AN EXPERIMENT Set yourself as a careful and thorough investigator. Think about every experiment as a potentially publishable ...

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... As a stimulant, it probably helps reduce the grogginess too, which is probably a bonus if used when the subject is very inebriated. Ethanol itself is diuretic, but not quite to this extent Quite interested in hearing more on this one.. at worst I'll just test myself by dosing on ...

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It seems like diuretics would help remove ethanol from the blood - it's being converted in the liver and lost across the respiratory membranes as well, and additional "flushing" would add to that, but how much-? And isn't ethanol itself ...

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... The protocol involved lysing the cells with 4% detergent, 1% NaCl and vortexing, centrifuging at 11krpm to form a cell pellet, and adding cold ethanol to the supernatant to precipitate the DNA. Afterwards we were asked the following two questions but I'm not sure what the answers should be ...

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All the other options were "metal" hydroxides. These compounds are salts which yield hydroxyl ions when they dissolve in water. Ethanol is a modestly polar organic molecule. It is miscible with water (remember the dictum, like dissolves like ?), but unlike metal hydroxides, ethanol ...

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