Posted by Lou PIlder on February 26, 2013, at 18:15:40 [reposted on March 2, 2013, at 13:30:29 | original URL]
In reply to Aspirin contains a benzene ring. » Lou PIlder, posted by SLS on February 26, 2013, at 17:30:24
> Aspirin is a derivative of benzene. Benzene is used in its manufacture.
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> I'm sure your expertise in organic chemistry will allow you to appreciate the following diagram:
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> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Aspirin-skeletal.png
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> The body's natural chemical machinery utilizes benzene (aromatic) rings all of the time. These include amino acids and neurotransmitters.
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> Norepinephrine:
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> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Noradrenaline_chemical_structure.png
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> I do not have a degree in biochemistry, but what little I do know leads me to believe that your understanding of the chemistry of life is limited, and that most of your claims have no scientific basis. Benzene is poisonous. Compounds that include benzene rings are not necessarily poisonous, and are, in fact, critical to life.
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> - ScottScott,
You wrote,[..Aspirin contains a benzen ring...Benzene is poisonous...]
Compounds that include benzene rings can be toxic. Aspirin is not any exception to that. In fact, aspirin can cause a host of adverse effects.
Now the taking of a benzodiazepine for long-term use is different from taking two aspirins a day for a few days. You see, it is when a drug is used foir more than a few weeks that the adverse effects can be probable. In BZDS, addiction can happen in a week. And long-term can have diasterous effects upon one's ability to think and be addictive that can result in horrific withdrawal effects.
People that take aspirin for long-term use are now seeing new information concerning the adverse effects of aspirin.
I don't think you have to be an "A" student, to understand that even aspirin can cause adverse effects. For it is a drug that has adverse effects. That benzene can be used in its synthesis, does not annul the fact that benzene can kill in compunds that are derivatives of such.
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