So when folks speak of being pickled by too much alcohol, they are literally correct. If you must drink, do so in a moderation that bespeaks an understanding of the chemistry to which you're forcing your liver. It's the embalming fluid in your brain that gives it an entirely justified hangover. It becomes a little dicey talking of the oxidation number of carbon in organic molecules because each of the carbons in some molecules might be in a different oxidation state depending upon to what it is bound. Molar Concentrations Earlier, I said the advantage to solution chemistry lay in being able to dilute and deliver, effectively.
Delivery is easy since liquids are so easy to control.
Dilute means to reduce the concentration so that the delivery is as finely-tuned as you'd like. That's a pretty fair concentration and explains why it is economically viable to collect salt by evaporating seawater. And so on, ad nauseum . VM is clearly the Holy Grail of solution chemistry since it represents moles, and moles represent molecules, and it's numbers of molecules coming and going that we measure with stoichiometry. The standard example is that of an acid-base titration where n acid is obviously M acid V acid , but that's the same as the moles of base if the base has been precisely neutralized.