Chemical formulas

[todpod]

How would you write the chemical formula for Beer (ie water =h2o0 or other such beverages such as rum or whiskey. I thought this may be a good addition for my secert santa stuff at work.
I'm a social worker so this sort of thing is not my strong suit.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

there is no beer molecule. someone around here has some neato ASCII alcohol in their sig tho.

 

[Howard]

There is no chemical formula for beer. How about the composition?

... that depends on which beer, btw.

 

[PottedMeat]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol?

 

[todpod]

I am trying to confuse them a little, the ethanol one should work C2H5OH. i work in an office full of women so I am trying to keep them on their toes.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: todpod
I am trying to confuse them a little, the ethanol one should work C2H5OH. i work in an office full of women so I am trying to keep them on their toes.

Stand on a stool.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: todpod
I am trying to confuse them a little, the ethanol one should work C2H5OH. i work in an office full of women so I am trying to keep them on their toes.

maybe educate thyself a little by using formulae instead of formulas? Formulae is the plural form of formula.

 

[KillerCharlie]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: todpod
I am trying to confuse them a little, the ethanol one should work C2H5OH. i work in an office full of women so I am trying to keep them on their toes.

maybe educate thyself a little by using formulae instead of formulas? Formulae is the plural form of formula.

Both formulas and formulae are perfectly acceptable. Educate yourself by looking in any dictionary.

 

[Tiamat]

Not easy. Beer has many constituents including but not limited to water, lactic and pyruvic acids, dextrins, adenosine, uridine, tyrosine, 2-phenylethanol, etc. I don't remember the others, but at one time I did perform NMR spectroscopy on a sample of beer...

Several groups have published NMR spectroscopy on beer, google would probably come up with a couple.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: todpod
I am trying to confuse them a little, the ethanol one should work C2H5OH. i work in an office full of women so I am trying to keep them on their toes.

maybe educate thyself a little by using formulae instead of formulas? Formulae is the plural form of formula.

Both formulas and formulae are perfectly acceptable. Educate yourself by looking in any dictionary.

Call me an old fart holding out.

 

[Toastedlightly]

I'd go w/ H2O, C2H6O umm.. C6H12O6?

 

[uclaLabrat]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
Not easy. Beer has many constituents including but not limited to water, lactic and pyruvic acids, dextrins, adenosine, uridine, tyrosine, 2-phenylethanol, etc. I don't remember the others, but at one time I did perform NMR spectroscopy on a sample of beer...

Several groups have published NMR spectroscopy on beer, google would probably come up with a couple.

That is possibly the most awesome thing I've heard today. Did they use D2O as the solvent?