Alcohols

Water penetrate the membrane more quickly than alcohols because of integral proteins - aquaporins. And they are specific for only water molecules. Of course, water can move through membrane directly. It is because of special membrane structure (saturated ...

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... easily than larger molecules, but there's also lipid solubility to account for in this case. Also, why does water penetrate more quickly than the alcohols?

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... cleaning and disinfection, denatured EtOH is just as good, and can be treated like normal, pure ethanol what comes to calculations (those other alcohols are toxic to microbes as well). For staining, well, I'd just try it out and see if the staining is okay :) And for anything more sophisticated, ...

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What do you think? A possibly related hint: consider the miscibility of alcohols of varying lengths in water.

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Sugarfree gum often uses sugar alcohols...depends on how stringent you want to get I mean, if you had paper or cotton inside your soda, I guess you could still call it sugar free.

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