(a) How would you test for an alcohol?
(b) Give the harmful effects of drinking alcohol.
(c) Explain why, methanol is much more dangerous to drink than ethanol.
Answers
Drinking alcohol
Explanation:
(a) There are many test for an alcohol:
Blood test : Your doctor uses a needle to draw blood from your arm and measure the amount of medication you use to test your blood for drugs.
Breath or Urine test : Each of these tests has the same objective: to evaluate the body's amount of alcohol.The other tests you may get for alcohol do not use blood samples, such as a breath or urine test.
Each of these tests has the same objective: to evaluate the body's amount of alcohol.
(b)Following adverse effects of drinking alcohol on human health:
Heart damage
Liver damage
Lung infection
Diabetes complication
Fatigue
Pancreas problems
Diarrhea
Cancer problem
Increased blood pressure
Muscle aches
Nausea
(c) Methanol is much more dangerous to drink than ethanol.The ingestion of very small amounts of methanol will lead to death. It is oxidized to methanal in the liver, which reacts and coagulates rapidly with protoplasm.
Methanol is a toxic substance that could lead to permanent blindness of the eye and excess methanol intake leads to death.