Name ___________________________
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Blood Alcohol Content Assignment
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Which is a more reliable method of testing a person’s BAC, through a blood test or a urine test?
 
 

Can drugs be detected in a breathalyzer machine?
 
 
 

Breath Alcohol Analysis
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Blood alcohol content (BAC) is expressed as ____________________.

If 200 mg of alcohol is found in 100 mL of blood, what is the BAC?
 
 
 

What BAC level causes death by respiratory depression?
 

Write the formulas of the chemicals used in a breath alcohol analyzer:
Potassium dichromate is wetted with sulfuric acid...

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Write this chemical equation:  (For help, click on “reduces”)
Ethanol reduces the yellow dichromate ion to green chromium (III) ion.

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The catalyst is silver nitrate. _______________