#ethyl alcohol is literally the stuff you drink. i'm basically holding moonshine right now

[gardenstateofmind]

chemistry is so funny because the same basic elements make up everything

like you can have two substances that are wildly different but made up of the same things, so their names or chemical structures will look really similar, except one will be essential to life and the other one will be poison

#personal #prompted by me realizing that polyethylene glycol and ethylene glycol sound really similar #but the former is miralax and the latter is antifreeze #also shout out to my one patient who was worried about what we used in our disinfectant wipes #and i was like oh this one is just straight up ethyl alcohol #and she was like UH ISN'T THAT ANTIFREEZE? and i'm like. no it is not. #ethyl alcohol is literally the stuff you drink. i'm basically holding moonshine right now #but i can see your concern lmao