Quick, I need a stick of chewing gum and a paperclip!

I must have watched too much MacGyver when I was young..

I can now treat malaria using materials found in the carbonated beverage aisle of the grocery store. I have purified quinine from tonic water!

I can also distill fuel to rush you to the hospital and give you a stiff drink to make you not care about the quinine’s nasty taste.  (Distillation of ethyl alcohol from a fermented solution!)

Next we’ll be analyzing tomato soup and carrot juice for nutrients of some kind (I’m a little fuzzy on that one..) and then we make aspirin! For the hangovers, no doubt.

Organic chemistry lab is a lot more useful than I’d anticipated!

 

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