[Herbalist] PGA?

[Andrew MacIan]

Greetings to the list!
--- Kathleen Keeler <kkeeler at unlserve.unl.edu> wrote:
> > > > Pure Grain Alcohol.
> > > Hm.. does the scientist speculate that it is the
> additives in the wood
> > > alcohol that supposedly makes it unhealthy, or
> just the wood alcohol
> > > itself in rubbing alcohol?
> > <>
> > > Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
>
> The alcohol itself.  Ethanol, ethyl alcohol, our
> standard alcohol, has the
> simplest possible side chain on the alcohol
> molecule.  Methyl alcohol,
> isopropyl alcohol etc. add more complex carbon side
> chains.
{snip}

Pardon, but methyl is ONE CH3 group; ethyl is TWO.

Recall from your basic chemistry that the numbering
sequence is meth-, eth-, but-, prop-, pent-.

Cordially,

Andrew

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