– Why is achohol so potent on breath but nothing else seems to be? You don’t pass a random on the street and are like, dayum that guy been eating grilled cheese.

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– Why is achohol so potent on breath but nothing else seems to be? You don’t pass a random on the street and are like, dayum that guy been eating grilled cheese.

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Ethyl alcohol, aka ethanol (the beverage alcohol) has a boiling point of 70c. Water has a boiling point of 100c. Although below boiling, Ethanol will dry more quickly than water, and your nose will detect ethanol gas molecules sooner than most other chemicals. There is almost nothing in a grilled cheese which produces gas molecules as easily as ethanol.