"Alcohol vapors" are the gaseous form of alcohol that you can smell in the air.
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After this baseline test, the researchers
used alcohol vapor to induce alcohol dependence in one group of rats.
The article «Stand - off detection of alcohol in car cabins,» by Jarosław Młyńczak, Jan Kubicki, and Krzysztof Kopczyński of the Military University of Technology in Warsaw, details experiments using an external laser device to detect the presence
of alcohol vapors inside of a moving car.
As a young research chemist in the 50s, when ionizing radiation was still a cool subject, for fun, I constructed a cosmic radiation detecting cloud chamber by supercooling
alcohol vapor in a jar with dry ice.
«Laser device can detect alcohol in cars: External device detects presence of
alcohol vapors inside of a moving car.»
Pregnant rats were exposed to
ethyl alcohol vapor for a six - hour period on their twelfth day of gestation; this was the only time the rats were exposed to alcohol.
If alcohol vapors are detected in the car, a message with a photo of the car including its number plate is sent to a police officer waiting down the road.
The researchers
simulated alcohol vapor coming from a human lung by evaporating a water solution of alcohol of an appropriate concentration and at an appropriate temperature.
The NTSB also recommended changes that would lead to a wider requirement of ignition interlock devices for convicted drunk drivers, increased use of highly visible enforcement efforts such as sobriety checkpoints to deter drunk drivers, and the use of passive alcohol sensors by law enforcement to
detect alcohol vapor in the ambient environment.
Inaccurate test results from a breathalyzer test due to the use of mouthwash or breath strips, dental problems,
alcohol vapors in asthma inhalers, uneven alcohol distribution in the blood, or residual mouth alcohol;
The results showed that the presence
of alcohol vapors was detected at concentrations of 0.1 % and greater.
(For that reason you will also not inhale
any alcohol vapors from Caesar's last glass of wine.)
The second group of rats were exposed to both nicotine and
alcohol vapor.
All a person had to do was blow into the machine and it would measure
the alcohol vapors in their breath.