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Article: MOLECULE OF THE MONTH: Meet the dog that bites you
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 20, 1994
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Christmas is a festival that normally brings tidings of comfort
and joy to the brewers and distillers. But not this year. They
celebrated too soon their escape from extra duty in the Budget, and
then fell foul of the wise men of the World Health O rganisation
whose report Alcohol Policy and the Public Good did not exactly
represent glad tidings of great joy. Even the brewers' watching
shepherds, the Portman Group, were suspected of trying to
orchestrate the angel choirs of academia.
However, these are as naught compared to the punishment that
awaits us in the form of a hangover on the morning after. The agent
of retribution is the molecule acetaldehyde, a volatile liquid with
a pungent yet ...