The Pros And Cons Of Ethanol

In our world today, we use sources of primary energy, and remedies that we are able to cure illness with. Organic compounds make up cells and structures of organisms and carry out life processes, Ethanol is common and is used for many things in our lives. Ethanol has two ways it can be produced the first is by fermentation, which is the chemical breakdown of sugar by yeast, this method is used to create beverages such as alcohol. The second method is the Hydration on ethene. This methobd produces ethanol by reacting ethene with steam. The formula for Ethanol is written as C2H6O or C2H5OH.

Ethanol's chemical structure is illustrated in the following picture. , how many covalent bonds each makes linked backed to electron configuration, …show more content…
Water is made up of one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms, the bonds between oxygen and the two hydrogens and the shape of the molecule result in water being of polar nature. The polar section of ethanol is found in the bond of O-H and therefore allows ethanol to dissolve in water as they are both of polar nature. Although ethanol is soluble in water it can be easily separated through the method of distillation, where heating the liquids is required, as ethanol evaporates faster and more readily than water. Water is found to have a boiling point of 100oC, whereas mentioned before, ethanol’s boiling point is at a lower temperature of 78.5oC. The condensation of ethanol can be caught and collected on a cold surface.

Ethanol is found to be very efficient in killing viruses, bacteria and fungi, which therefore makes it a great component in hand sanitizer and medical wipes. The polar nature allows it to disrupt the hydrogen bonding in the proteins and the non-polar nature means ethanol has the ability to dissolve the bi-lipid layer of the cell membranes. The combination of the effects results in the cell content escaping and the bacterium dying. However, against bacterial spores ethanol is