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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11474