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Quote from: Bored chemist on 28/03/2020 10:39:52Quote from: scientizscht on 28/03/2020 08:45:27Quote from: chris on 27/03/2020 18:03:30Quote from: Bored chemist on 23/03/2020 16:45:15Alcohol kills the virus at concentrations above 60%.It kills people at concentrations about 1% (there's some leeway on both figures, but the point stands).Absolutely brilliant! Quoted this elsewhere several times already!You don't have to drink it, maybe a vaporiser inhaler could work.The purpose of lungs is to take material from the vapour phase and move it into the bloodstream.They are very good at their job.And that's what happens to inhaled alcohol.There's no way you could get a significant concentration in the lungs.That's a good thing. Because, if you got an alcohol concentration in the tissues of the lungs that was remotely near that needed to "kill" the virus, it would kill the lungs.The only reason we can get away with using alcohol to deactivate viruses on the skin is that the outer layer of the skin is already dead.Alcohol inhalation - Wikipediahttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_inhalation
Quote from: scientizscht on 28/03/2020 08:45:27Quote from: chris on 27/03/2020 18:03:30Quote from: Bored chemist on 23/03/2020 16:45:15Alcohol kills the virus at concentrations above 60%.It kills people at concentrations about 1% (there's some leeway on both figures, but the point stands).Absolutely brilliant! Quoted this elsewhere several times already!You don't have to drink it, maybe a vaporiser inhaler could work.The purpose of lungs is to take material from the vapour phase and move it into the bloodstream.They are very good at their job.And that's what happens to inhaled alcohol.There's no way you could get a significant concentration in the lungs.That's a good thing. Because, if you got an alcohol concentration in the tissues of the lungs that was remotely near that needed to "kill" the virus, it would kill the lungs.The only reason we can get away with using alcohol to deactivate viruses on the skin is that the outer layer of the skin is already dead.
Quote from: chris on 27/03/2020 18:03:30Quote from: Bored chemist on 23/03/2020 16:45:15Alcohol kills the virus at concentrations above 60%.It kills people at concentrations about 1% (there's some leeway on both figures, but the point stands).Absolutely brilliant! Quoted this elsewhere several times already!You don't have to drink it, maybe a vaporiser inhaler could work.
Quote from: Bored chemist on 23/03/2020 16:45:15Alcohol kills the virus at concentrations above 60%.It kills people at concentrations about 1% (there's some leeway on both figures, but the point stands).Absolutely brilliant! Quoted this elsewhere several times already!
Alcohol kills the virus at concentrations above 60%.It kills people at concentrations about 1% (there's some leeway on both figures, but the point stands).
Well it depends how fast a 60% alcohol can kill viruses.