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Mystery Molecule - RF Cafe Forums
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject: Mystery Molecule
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:31 pm
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This molecule is for a liquid found useful by many
visitors to RF Cafe.
Jason guessed it
(see below).Click on the "Post
Reply" button above to register your guess.
- Kirt Blattenberger
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:08 am
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sweat?
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Post subject: molecule
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:41 pm
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject: Re: molecule
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:57 pm
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hightechnh@yahoo.com wrote:
is it caffeine?
Not sweat. Not caffeine. Good
guesses, though. - Kirt B.
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 1:18 pm
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Is it ribose. Part of ribonucleaic acid.
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Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:25 pm
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Post subject: Liquid Molecule
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 8:01 pm
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OK, I'll take a crack at it. Is it Ethyl Alcohol?
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 10:17 am
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Jason wrote:
How about beer?
Jason wins the prize!
Well, there isn't really a prize other than
the satisfaction of knowing that you were the first
to figure it out. Jolly good. I ran across
it while looking for some other chemical information.
It was the Molecule of the Week on Chemstry.org.
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/home.html#
"Beer flavor is a complex balance of sweetness
from sugars and bitter from the humulones in hops
(Humulus lupulus) flowers. When wort (unfermented
beer) is boiled, humulone molecules rearrange to
form the more soluble isohumulones (one example
shown here). Isohumulones retard bacterial growth
and contribute to beer's bitter flavor."
- Kirt Blattenberger
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