30 Mar
2012
30 Mar
'12
5:33 p.m.
Not everything
with a hydroxyl group is considered an alcohol, even
by chemists. Alkali metal hydroxides, for example. Or water. Or
sugars. Or even phenol, [...]
I did state 'organic substances', and I
meant that in the chemicla
sense. That rules out metalic hydroxides (why only thoseo f alkali
metals? Surely you don't class calcium hydroxide as an alcohol),
water, and the like. I feel
reasonably sure the answer is "they ignore them"; certainly
in the few cases I can answer confidently it is. Such prohibitions
often (usually?) are actually aimed at intoxication, by way of
intoxicants; [...]
Yes, I thought as much... Why does 'Is electricity
fire' from SYJMF
keep running through my mind?