matter, one may ask: "What is alcohol? Isn't it just used for medications?" Well, according to Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word alcohol may mean up to several meanings. For example, in the medical world, the term alcohol means: "a mixture of ethanol and water that is usually 95% ethanol, which is a colorless volatile flammable liquid C2H5OH that is the intoxicating agent in liquors and is also used as a solvent." For this particular essay, however, the term alcohol means: "ethanol especially when
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Collateral damage There are many people affected when it comes to alcohol abuse. Addiction does not just affect the user; it could affect family, friends and even co-workers. When you encounter an issue with a family member that has an addiction to alcohol, you want to help them the best way you know how, but it is easy to ignore how much it is affecting you until you reach your tipping point. You become collateral damage in your efforts to help the person you love with his/her problem, and although
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Booze Blues: A Case Study on the Liver Three signs and/or symptoms that point to alcoholism. Alcoholism is characterized by hyperglycemia, high blood glucose as it is not properly metabolized by the liver. People with alcoholic cirrhosis are unable to store glucose as glycogen thereby remaining in the blood. Moreover, the glucose cannot be metabolized since cirrhosis destroys the pancreas, leading to insufficiency of insulin. Another symptom is excessive bruising as evident on the patient, which
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A miniscale diels-alder reaction was performed between the conjugated diene 2,3dimethyl-1,3 butadiene and a substituted alkene such as maleic anhydride in order to produce a substituted cyclohexane. The substituted cyclohexane produced was 4,5-dimethyl-4-cyclohexene-cis-1,2-dicarboxylic acid anhydride. A diels- alder reaction does not have an intermediate state, meaning that bond breaking and bond making occurs at the same time. Heat needs to be applied in order for the reaction to occur and it is
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The first molecule of butane shown is antibonding, meaning that the carbon groups are 180 degrees apart. This is the most stable conformation of butane because there is no strain on the molecule. The second molecule of butane shown is eclipsed, the eclipsed molecule has torsional strain between the carbon hydrogen bonds making it less stable than the anti or gauche form. The gauche form is the second most stable configuration of butane where the two methyl groups are staggered 60° apart from each
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Concerns over those individuals who drink alcohol excessively and have become heavily dependent on it go back to many centuries and today are still being aimed at the effect that alcohol has on the individual and on the society as a whole. “Alcoholism has conventionally been distinguished as a persistent and chronic disorder” (Fingarette,2005). Given the distinctiveness of the analytical understandings of alcoholism and the people affected by it, it is not startling that there are diversified treatments
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“A tree is known for its fruit; alcoholism by its problems”.(Goodwin 1981 p.31).According to Goodwin alcohol dependency is when a person has problems with drink but regardless of this will not quit.As stated by Cooney he the definition by Mary Mann in her book Primer on alcoholism(Henry Holt and Co.1950,New York).She defines an alcoholic as “anyone whose drinking caused a continuning problem in any department of his or her own life”.(Cooney 2002 p.3).The view of whether alcoholism is a disease is
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Consequences of Drinking Although the consumption of alcohol may be presented as an enjoyable pastime, there are a variety of consequences that one must consider before engaging in such behaviour. Typically, damages caused by drinking can be inflicted on either yourself or others, and these impacts can be seen immediately or after an extended period of this risky behaviour. Most often, these consequences impact grades, physical and mental well-being, and result in a lot of wasted time from having
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individual continues to crave for alcohol despite of repeated alcohol-related problems. The signs of alcoholism and alcohol abuse are very similar, and are often just a question of degree or intensity. Typically, the last person to be aware that he/she has a serious drinking problem is the alcoholic himself/herself - they are in denial. Some signs and symptoms of alcoholism as well as alcohol abuse include, drinking alone, not being able to limit how much alcohol is consumed, dropping hobbies and
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Pg(303-309/312-314) 3/11/14 Experiment #36 and 36b Preparation of the Grignard Reagent and Benzoic Acid Purpose- In this experiment we learned to prepare a Grignard reagent, phenyl magnesium bromide, which we then converted to a carboxylic acid. Procedure & Observations- First we started by setting up our apparatus for Grignard reactions. We started by making sure all glassware was completely dried as a Grignard reaction would not occur if water is present. We used
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