Doesn’t ethanol have a hydroxyl group? Checks Wiki. Yes it does but modern chemical notation doesn’t include that any more. When I went to school it was still C2H5OH, having changed from CH3CH2OH designation that showed more of the structure of the molecule. Yes, I’m old. That’s one of the things that happens to us unkillable badasses, we get old. Well older.
Old-ish?
Rycan
I use C2H5OH for ethanol personally – less ambiguous than C2H6O. But what got heavily stressed in school for me was the nomenclature of chemical names – they’re a lot more specific than chemical formulas.
Ryan
There are different levels of specificity for chemical formulas. “C2H6O” just indicates the relative ratios of the elements in the compound, but gives no information about their arrangement. It could just as well be dimethyl ether. “C2H5OH” indicates that it’s an alcohol, but doesn’t tell where the OH group goes (there’s only one possibility for ethanol, so it doesn’t mater, but it does for larger alcohols). Finally, CH3CH2OH is a full structural specification. They’re all correct in different contexts.
Rycan
Heh, another chemist named Ryan.
Kaoy
Not sure if that is a really a Chemist thing. I have only taken a couple of college level organic chemistry classes and knew that much.
Okay, I understand. And the answer is simple, she just puts her arm under the bottom of the shirt and lifts it to her mouth. It’s outside now because she needs a refill.
Pretty sure caramel dissolves in alcohol, so that makes sense.
Disloyal Subject
I must now try this.
Rich
Do a search on “caramel drinks” and you should turn up some recipes. You can buy caramel vodka and the like commercially, but I know I’ve seen DIY mixes that use caramel syrup.
240 thoughts on “CAH”
DarkoNeko
Hahaha he’s drunk.
DarkoNeko
“What’s gotten into you ?” Well, litterally…
lejwocky
C2H6O
Wack'd
Embenzalmine nitrotomine.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Ethanol?
I dunno, what’s Billie generally packing these days?
Opus the Poet
Doesn’t ethanol have a hydroxyl group? Checks Wiki. Yes it does but modern chemical notation doesn’t include that any more. When I went to school it was still C2H5OH, having changed from CH3CH2OH designation that showed more of the structure of the molecule. Yes, I’m old. That’s one of the things that happens to us unkillable badasses, we get old. Well older.
Old-ish?
Rycan
I use C2H5OH for ethanol personally – less ambiguous than C2H6O. But what got heavily stressed in school for me was the nomenclature of chemical names – they’re a lot more specific than chemical formulas.
Ryan
There are different levels of specificity for chemical formulas. “C2H6O” just indicates the relative ratios of the elements in the compound, but gives no information about their arrangement. It could just as well be dimethyl ether. “C2H5OH” indicates that it’s an alcohol, but doesn’t tell where the OH group goes (there’s only one possibility for ethanol, so it doesn’t mater, but it does for larger alcohols). Finally, CH3CH2OH is a full structural specification. They’re all correct in different contexts.
Rycan
Heh, another chemist named Ryan.
Kaoy
Not sure if that is a really a Chemist thing. I have only taken a couple of college level organic chemistry classes and knew that much.
Rycan
Wishful thinking, then.
jpic89
…I miss chemistry so much…*tear*
Krixwel
At my school (in Norway), the alcohol formulas we’re taught are of the C#H#OH variety. 🙂
SmartAlec105
Back in my day, alcohol was made of just 2 elements! Fire and Water!
Nice
Liquid Courage!
Baggy
Hey, you can’t comment first!!! That’s Jen’s job!!!
thebombzen
Jen was too busy pulling out her old Apples to Apples game and changing all the cards to funnier versions (like Chains to 2 Chainz).
Some cards always win though. Like Hiroshima – 1945. For some reason.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
I’m the only person I know who finds it kinda cool that my birthday is the anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb. Oddly. >_>
Robert
Sorry Mario, but our Jen Aside is in another castle.
OctopusGardener
Woo, fellow bomb-day baby! High-five!
Yet_One_More_Idiot
*high fives* 😀 Yeah, our birthday is DA BOMB!
lol
Blob Marley
The best play I’ve ever seen though:
The green card was “Senseless.”
The winning red card was “Helen Keller”
Rycan
Old joke is getting old.
Litch Opus the Poet
Sorry, did someone call me? Oh there is a “party” going in Joyce’s room in your comic as well. Who is getting flogged in your party?
Doctor_Who
…How is she drinking it?
timemonkey
Who drinking what|?
LiaHansen
Dina, her drink through ethan’s jacket
DarkoNeko
Also isn’t she hot as hell in that ? ^^;
LiaHansen
Dina’s hot as hell in anything
Doctor_Who
Not my idea of a sexy ensemble, but whatever floats your boat.
DarkoNeko
(” ) I should have formulated that better.
DarkoNeko
Anyway, it gotta be kinda suffocating.
nothri
I forget, is she cold blooded or has science disproven that theory?
a snow ʍousɐ
…OH LITERAL HEAT
Doctor_Who
Dina drinking Sprite. Is the mouth on her hat functional?
AgentKeen
She sticks the end of a crazy straw out of the mouth of her hat. She figures a hummingbird is a modern dinosaur, so it’s ok to drink like one.
vlademir1
I presume Dina drinking her sprite.
Rich
Dina with the Sprite, presumably.
Kraken
Dina has mastered the art of drinking without removing sweatshirts, just like ninjas eat without removing their masks.
Lord Stoneheart
“How is she drinking it?”
Like a boss presumably.
timemonkey
Okay, I understand. And the answer is simple, she just puts her arm under the bottom of the shirt and lifts it to her mouth. It’s outside now because she needs a refill.
Nick Piers
Her dino-hat has a top jaw. Therefore, a mouth exists. Boom. Drinking.
Ned
Its actually really easy in sprite of what you might think.
Leadsynth
Eventually the answer will pop into your head.
Shadlyn
When you realize what it is, you’ll be like, so “duh!”
Disloyal Subject
Fabric is porous. Hopefully Ethan doesn’t mind.
6Qubed
emergency induction port
Karen Lynn
That’s a straw…
MrSitouh
Emergency. Induction. Port.
Bantha
….Emergency…..Induction…..Port….
Mr. Random
A bit of things. Has. …. Billie.
LiaHansen
wat
Mr. Random
Yes.
Mr. Morningstar
Mr. Random living up to his name.
Kamino Neko
It’s not that random…it’s clearly supposed to be Walky’s drunklish reply to Dorothy.
otusasio451
Apples to Apples is my JAM.
Plasma Mongoose
Oranges To Oranges is my Marmalade.
Leorale
I wanted oranges, now I’m jelly.
Wack'd
Cream? So sweet in between?
Charlie Spencer
Sorry, never heard of it before today. Just another pop culture reference I’ll have to decide to Google (along with ‘CAH’).
leadsynth
Joyce mentioned it a few weeks ago…that is…in 2011. http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/condition/
Rich
Well, that confirms everyone’s suspicions about Walky’s alcohol tolerance.
Doctor_Who
The Walkerton genes are high in caramel content, low on alcohol tolerance.
Rich
Pretty sure caramel dissolves in alcohol, so that makes sense.
Disloyal Subject
I must now try this.
Rich
Do a search on “caramel drinks” and you should turn up some recipes. You can buy caramel vodka and the like commercially, but I know I’ve seen DIY mixes that use caramel syrup.
DarkoNeko
Bet the most fermented thing he tried before tonight’s alcohol is cheese nachos.
AgentKeen
They weren’t fermented!
Ok, sure, he left them under his bed for a few weeks. But they were still good!
Opus the Poet
Sure they were, cheese is milk fermented by mold. Don’t they teach you kids anything these days?
Mr. Random
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
Rycan
Except mitochondria is plural.
Rich
They’re also an alien species bent on conquering the world and melting humanity.
What? Parasite Eve is a documentary, isn’t it?
Rycan
Well, mitochondria are a completely different species that live inside of us, if you look at it a certain way (the rest is of course bunk).