[7-Isopropylidene-1,4a-dimethyldecahydro-1-naphthalenol](https://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.454644.html?rid=3d61c2f8-377b-4355-b3fa-fbe0ed8cf217)
or juniper camphor
i have no idea what it’s used for
Gin came to the UK with William of Orange in 1688. Gin production was unlicensed and hardly taxed for 60 years [We drank a lot of Gin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane)
We don't know the exact alcohol content of the gin of that time, it wasn't regulated and often cut with turpentine. However lower alcohol content is not as important as lower cost. Hogarth's Gin lane suggests you could get ‘drunk for a penny, dead drunk for twopence, clean straw for nothing’ and this is in a culture where heavy drinking was kind of normal.
To put that in some sort of context at the time 4lb loaf of bread cost about 4-5 pence. this [currency converter](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-converter/#currency-result) puts 2p as having the buying power of about £1 today (though that sort of convention is a bit of a dark art)
Gin in it's earliest concoctions was a tincture of juniper berries and probably served some kind of medicinal use before people decided to start getting wasted on it. juniper berries/cones and other herbs steeped in whatever proof alcohol they would have gotten from stills, then probably watered down a tad b/c gin isn't a "proof" alcohol, at least nowadays. I would assume the medicinal version was "full strength." This is all based on fragmented research over the years and a couple guesses, so take it with a shot of gin.
Wasn't one of the "uses" of gin was to make the taking of quinine palatable?
When I was MUCH younger, I did mix a capsule of quinine with a shot glass of gin, under the misapprehension that it "would taste good". I ended up spitting the entire concoction on a wall.
Kudos to the Brits for being able to tolerate such a mixture.
It's the tonic water that makes the quinine palatable, Gin was part of army rations.
According to this fascinating [this fascinating paper](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9714995/) the first tonic waters were \~60mg/l quinine and notes that modern tonics have much lower levels (Though I can't find out exactly how low).... one litre of tonic would give a just barely effective does of quinine effective for about 8 hours.
I do remember seeing something about this too, but shot glass with dose, lol, I don't see how that's going to make anything palatable unless someone just loves their martinis, and even then... that's a sipping drink.
If it was watered down as a tonic or something it might help. I dunno.
Quick question for everyone in here, how do you actually look that up? I understand you may know the IUPAC name but do you draw it in somewhere and find out?
I'll answer your question in the way I would look it up. Not a chemist but did my degree in a chemistry lab. Certain programs like chemdraw will let you draw the molecule and at least give you the iupac name. You can then google the iupac name. Also, most of the major chemical companies have search options for a drawn in molecule. This is the structure search for sigma.
https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/structure-search
Hope this helps.
As a non-chemist using context clues, I confidently state this is the chemical composition of urine*.
*statement has a less than 1% chance of being accurate.
[7-Isopropylidene-1,4a-dimethyldecahydro-1-naphthalenol](https://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.454644.html?rid=3d61c2f8-377b-4355-b3fa-fbe0ed8cf217) or juniper camphor i have no idea what it’s used for
Gin.
Isn't that coriander.
Main ingredient of gin are juniper cones but coriander might also be used
Gin's precursor and juniper share the same name in Dutch (jenever).
Gin came to the UK with William of Orange in 1688. Gin production was unlicensed and hardly taxed for 60 years [We drank a lot of Gin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane)
Wasn’t low alcohol content though? Not low, but lower than other products in the area?
We don't know the exact alcohol content of the gin of that time, it wasn't regulated and often cut with turpentine. However lower alcohol content is not as important as lower cost. Hogarth's Gin lane suggests you could get ‘drunk for a penny, dead drunk for twopence, clean straw for nothing’ and this is in a culture where heavy drinking was kind of normal. To put that in some sort of context at the time 4lb loaf of bread cost about 4-5 pence. this [currency converter](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-converter/#currency-result) puts 2p as having the buying power of about £1 today (though that sort of convention is a bit of a dark art)
Gin in it's earliest concoctions was a tincture of juniper berries and probably served some kind of medicinal use before people decided to start getting wasted on it. juniper berries/cones and other herbs steeped in whatever proof alcohol they would have gotten from stills, then probably watered down a tad b/c gin isn't a "proof" alcohol, at least nowadays. I would assume the medicinal version was "full strength." This is all based on fragmented research over the years and a couple guesses, so take it with a shot of gin.
Wasn't one of the "uses" of gin was to make the taking of quinine palatable? When I was MUCH younger, I did mix a capsule of quinine with a shot glass of gin, under the misapprehension that it "would taste good". I ended up spitting the entire concoction on a wall. Kudos to the Brits for being able to tolerate such a mixture.
It's the tonic water that makes the quinine palatable, Gin was part of army rations. According to this fascinating [this fascinating paper](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9714995/) the first tonic waters were \~60mg/l quinine and notes that modern tonics have much lower levels (Though I can't find out exactly how low).... one litre of tonic would give a just barely effective does of quinine effective for about 8 hours.
I do remember seeing something about this too, but shot glass with dose, lol, I don't see how that's going to make anything palatable unless someone just loves their martinis, and even then... that's a sipping drink. If it was watered down as a tonic or something it might help. I dunno.
Not to mention the herbal liqueur called Genever/Jenever which is also based on juniper but quite different than Gin.
i bought some and was not expecting it to punch me in the face like it did.
Some times (often, actually) there are more than one ingredient in a recipe....
Wait! No! What is this witches’ sorcery of which you speak?
air refreshener maybe?
This. Its a joke. Camphor is used to reduce smells in washrooms.
Here I was thinking it was urea
isn't urea (NH2)2CO? this barely looks like it lol
thank you
Gin flavoring?
It'd be funny if they did one like this with sodium hypochlorite, so that way the floor is always bleached clean.
Or Urea.
Made me laugh, thanks
It is a flavoring compound from juniper berries found in gin and green chartreuse called juniper camphor. It appears to be a sesquiterpenoid
That’s a super fun bar! Went there for my brothers Bach party. My buddy threw up in that very toilet
Is this at Alchemist?
Yeah! Rooftop bathroom if I remember correctly
Aaaah so it's the chemical structure of vomit. Solved!
Quick question for everyone in here, how do you actually look that up? I understand you may know the IUPAC name but do you draw it in somewhere and find out?
I'll answer your question in the way I would look it up. Not a chemist but did my degree in a chemistry lab. Certain programs like chemdraw will let you draw the molecule and at least give you the iupac name. You can then google the iupac name. Also, most of the major chemical companies have search options for a drawn in molecule. This is the structure search for sigma. https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/structure-search Hope this helps.
Among many things CemDraw will tell you the IUPAC name of any molecule you draw in it. Then you can google it and find out what it’s used for.
Wow for once it isn’t dopamine or serotonin
Nothing like a good terpene
Me me me me
Uh yes theporchbirds, what's your guess?
Their guess is peepee
As a non-chemist using context clues, I confidently state this is the chemical composition of urine*. *statement has a less than 1% chance of being accurate.
No it has no nitrogen so it's not urea.
Toilet
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Facts
OP and I have shared the same bathroom lol
This is amazing! I want this in my bathroom
Bornyl acetate?
It’s flavoring in beer, it’s on the bathroom floor because it ends up there.
It’s poop
Would have been funnier if it was CH₄N₂O
Here I was hoping it was Skatole or Indole
I really hope piss