X-Message-Number: 11474
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:59:24 -0800
From: Olaf Henny <>
Subject: Help From Chemists Requested

Question to the chemists out there:

I am trying to translate Charles Platt's report on the November 8, 1988 
Seminar by 21st Century Medicine into German, with an eye on posting 
it on a German cryonics web-site.  Of course I will obtain permission for 
doing so from Charles as well as from 21CM, but first I want to find out 
for myself, how I am doing at this kind of translation.

The problem I stumbled on was the following quotation from Charles' text: 
    
"For example, *propylene glycol consists of a chain of 
carbon atoms*, with two OH (hydroxyl) atomic groups attached 
to the first two atoms in the chain. Wowk proposed replacing 
one of the hydroxyl groups with an OCH3 (methoxyl) group, 
creating a methoxylated version of propylene glycol. ..."

(The asterisks are mine)

Well, propylene glycol's formula is C3H8O2, hardly much of a chain of 
carbon atoms, more like one of hydrogen atoms.

Can anybody provide me with an explanation please?

Best, Olaf

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