From: Plamen Angelov (angelov$##$argon.acad.bg)
Date: Tue Oct 09 2001 - 13:48:05 EDT
Fredrik Thorstensson <freto$##$ifm.liu.se> wrote:
> ## Antidote to methanol ##
> ETHANOL!
>
> If you give ordinary liquor to a methanol poisoned man, the liver will
> metabolize the ethanol first and thus will the methanol just pass the
> body. When methanol is metabolized you get formic acid and the the
> blood pH decreases until you reach dangerous levels and the victim gets
> acidos and eventually dies.
>
> So the antidote is ordinary liqour, booze, ethylalcohol, spirits,
> ethanol = CH3CH2OH.
It doesn't seem quite convincing to me. After all, most of the methanol
poisonings are caused by mixtures that contain a great deal of ethanol.
__________________
ORGLIST - Organic Chemistry Mailing List
Website / Archive / FAQ: http://www.orglist.net/
List coordinator: Joao Aires de Sousa (jas$##$mail.fct.unl.pt)
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Fri Sep 19 2003 - 12:16:28 EDT