Hmmm... pungent, weakly aromatic!
Hmmm... pungent, weakly aromatic!
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let's flush it down with some h2o2
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Who needs metabolism when you can just explode?
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On another note, now I want some spaghetti
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Why does the vinaigrette smell like a nail salon?
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I've never seen acetone that looks so much like french fries.
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I have never seen french fries that look so much like crudités.
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I went and looked this up, turns out drinking acetone isn't as outright dangerous as I expected. Our bodies produce a little of the stuff when breaking down fat, into ketones. It's only a problem when there's too much of the stuff for the liver to process.
So basically it's like drinking rubbing alcohol.
... Which you still shouldn't do.
I don't think your comment emphasizes enough how like drinking rubbing alcohol drinking acetone would be. Rubbing alcohol (isopropanol) is, in fact, metabolized directly to acetone when ingested. The acetone can be metabolized further, but a good chunk is also simply exhaled.
All right then, chemically and metabolically speaking, (this is hypothetical and I never have any intention of drinking rubbing alcohol or acetone), what is the maximum amount of these liquids a person could drink before it becomes dangerous?
I looked up the safety sheet for this meme title ngl.