It was an average day for...Mark! And Roger! And Angel! Yaaaaay Averageness! Anywho, yeah. It was pretty boring...when all of a sudden...Mark SAID something! omigosh! This was a major accomplishment because there had been some pretty akward silence for about twelve hours now.
"Hey...Lets go ...um...do something productive..." Mark suggested. Roger gasped.
"And get up? No thanks. I'm fine with being a lazy bum who writes songs all day." replied roger ravengly.
Mark sighed. Angel looked up from...um...her...? book that um...she...? was reading.
" Mark, if you wanna do something that requires thought then be our guest. But we're just gonna sit here being lazy." Angel said.
Just then...Collins burst in through the window and...He had roger and carmen with him!
"Hiya guys! I just met these two great guys. This is Roger DeBris and this is Carmen Ghia or however you spell that. Slinko likes spam." said Collins as he poured himself some booze.
"Whats that?" asked Mark.
"Slinko typing that'd what." answered Collins.
"Not the typing, the liquid."
"Oh this is just a little alchohol."
Just then...Zim jumped in through the window! Then he ate Roger and Carmen in one AMAZING bite.
" Tell me about this alchohol! Does it have the power to bring iNVADER ZiM back to nickeloden?.!"
" uh...no. Only Jhonen Vasquez can do that. "
" Explain this alchohl to me."
" Okke dokke! Alcohol" is a generic name for large group of organic chemical compounds. There are many types of alcohols. They all are derivatives of hydrocarbons in which one or more of the hydrogen atoms have been replace by a hydroxyl (-OH) functional group. Hydrocarbons are compounds with contain hydrogen (H) and carbon (C) only. The hydroxyl group imparts particular properties to the radical to which it is attached.
Alcohols are named according to the radical to which the –OH group is attached. For example if the –OH group is attached to the methyl radical CH3 so that the compound is CH3OH, then one has methyl alcohol. If it is attached to the ethyl (C2H5) radical then one has ethyl alcohol (CH3CH2OH) - the alcohol we consume in beverages. The general formula for alcohol is ROH, where R signifies a hydrocarbon radical attached to an -OH group. A list of some of the common alcohols is given below:
Alcohols are classified as primary, secondary, or tertiary dependent upon the number of other organic groups, denoted R, attached to the carbon atom with the hydroxyl ( –OH) group. Those with two hydrogen atoms attached to the carbon atom with the attached hydroxyl group are called primary. Those with one hydrogen atom attached to the carbon with the hydroxyl group are called secondary, and those with no hydrogen atoms attached to the carbon atom with the hydroxyl group are called tertiary. Thus, a primary alcohol has the form RCH2 – OH; a secondary alcohol has the form R2CH – OH: and a tertiary alcohol, the form R3C – OH. The R groups do not need to be the same.
Ethyl Alcohol - for which the more scientific name is ethanol - is the substance that we find in beverages. For the remainder of this unit, consider the words ethyl alcohol, alcohol and ethanol to be interchangeable.
There are other molecules that contain an -OH group - an oxygen bonded to a carbon. Water, H2O is the most common. It is not an alcohol because alcohols are defined as organic compounds that have little or no ionization of the hydrogen. Other organic compounds that contain -OH groups but are not alcohols are phenol (C6H5OH) and acetic acid (CH3COOH). These compounds are not alcohols because they are acidic. The term alcohol, then, is another representation of a type of electronic structure in the molecules of substances.
Properties of Some Alcohols
Boiling
Point oC and Flammability and
Toxicity-LD50
(The dose, in mg/kg, that kills 50 of test
animals, generally reported for rats.)
12600
And that is exactly what alchohol is, my dear friend." explained Collins. Zim slowly nodded. He pretended to understand what collins had just said. But he understood it just about as much as you did. And that's not a helluva lot. Zim nodded again and left. Collins turned around only to see Mark, Roger, Angel, Mimi, Maureen, Benny, and all the extras of RENT dancing the conga. Collins smiled and joined in. Earlier today, Collins had decided that he would go mad, and now...here he was, dancing the conga. My how things have changed.
" I'll have you know i am single handedly responisble for the long neck of the giraffe." Said Ford.
"Taquites!" screamed Jhonen!"