Poisonous, _hurts the In making jewelry.
body_.
Intoxicating, _takes away the BAD USE.
senses; makes drunk_. To drink.
Absorbent, _takes up or
absorbs water_.
Inflammable, _burns with a
flame_.
Uncongealable, _will not
freeze_.
Innutritious, _not good for
food_.
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ABOUT FERMENTATION AND FERMENTED LIQUOR.
_ALCOHOL._--Alcohol may be obtained from any substance which contains sugar
or starch, or both sugar and starch, as apples, pears, grapes, potatoes,
beets, rice, barley, maple, honey, etc.
Alcohol can be obtained only by _fermentation_. By fermentation we mean the
change which takes place when a juice containing sugar decays, or goes to
pieces. You know decay always makes things fall to pieces.
You ask, what pieces is sugar made of? Very, very little pieces, called
_atoms_. There are different kinds of sugar. In that made from grapes,
called _grape sugar_, there are six atoms of carbon, twelve of hydrogen,
and six of oxygen. What are carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen? Oxygen is the
kind of gas which keeps animals alive, and makes things burn. Hydrogen is
another kind, which you have smelled perhaps when water has been spilled on
a hot stove; the gas burned in street-lamps is hydrogen that has been
driven out of coal.
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