Alcohol is called a solvent because it solves tension in the material and loosens it up. If you blend it with something else, this is called a solution.
@AmpBenzScientist Chemists love to make a mess in the kitchen.
@thor Chemists love to make jokes about Biologists and go back to the same reactions that involve Mercury salts.
@thor Why would one stop drinking?
@AmpBenzScientist It can be a bit rough on the gut and the wallet.
@thor I've never had problems with it in my gut. I've never had a hangover.
I did stop drinking when I realized that I had the shakes and had to keep drinking as I watched the sun rise. I suppose I could have chugged a bottle of wine but it was an adverse interaction with a medication.
On the wallet, only cocaine could ever compete to be a fraction of a waste of money as an American college. One doesn't waste time and that would be the drugs.
@AmpBenzScientist Only if you don't stop drinking it.