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Alcohol consumption in Brazil is on the rise, but not because people are drinking more. Instead, drivers are filling their gas tanks with ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, which is one of two fuel options used in a new generation of Brazilian cars called Flex. The cars work like traditional vehicles but can run on either gasoline or ethanol derived from sugar cane--a commodity in abundance in Brazil. Volkswagen, Ford, Fiat and GM all produce Flex lines. In May sales of Flex vehicles overtook gasoline models for the first time. By August, Flex sales had risen 61.7%. "I am hard...
...Union of Perfume Makers, denounces the rules as "unrealistic," noting that more than 100 ingredients can be used to create a fragrance. And in an industry where the beauty of a flask can be almost as important as its contents, the idea of swamping packaging with ugly words like ethyl linalool and geraniol is heresy. Even worse, Bodifee argues, the labels would be a free recipe that "favors counterfeiters." That could be devastating to areas of France like Grasse, a flower-growing town that brings in j600 million a year producing about half of French perfumes' raw materials...
...libraries formerly used gas ethyl oxide to kill mold on the books, but the federal government has since lowered the legal amount available to institutions...
There, he won a number of awards for teaching and research, including the Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award. He has also worked as a consultant for the Exxon Corporation, Sepracor and Ethyl Corporation...
After the incident all other ethyl ether receptacles were tested and determined safe. The students were instructed to continue the lab experiment without the use of ether...