Farmanutricals

The subtlety of life is more like a well written song than we might think. A chemist was here a few months ago and I mentioned that we could really throw out chemistry as a separate discipline since the physics of atoms could be extended to encompass all the interactions we used to think of as chemical as more of a combination of energy that settle into a symbiotic relationship: that are singing the same tune. So when a couple of hydrogens pick up an oxygen they resonate in a simple dyad. Add a few more atoms and you can have a complex minor chord like ethyl alcohol: two carbons, six hydrogens and an oxygen. C2H5OH because we like the formula to be somewhat reflective of what we think of as the structure of the molecule, or perhaps because the last hydrogen is singing a high "C". More on this later.