I remember one time, in one of my high school chemistry classes, we worked through a problem wherein we learned that when some OTC pain reliever -- I want to say acetaminophen because it's what I remember and because it seems reasonable -- breaks down, it starts to form acetic acid, the same acid that's in vinegar. Because I'm weird like that, this is one of those useless tidbits I remember.
When I went off to college, my mom got me a big-ass bottle of generic acetaminophen, which I barely used at all. (My pain tends to respond better to ibuprofen.) The bottle was mostly full even well after its expiration date. When I moved out to AZ -- 5 years later -- I opened the bottle just once before deciding whether to throw it away. Sure enough, it smelled very strongly of vinegar.
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Date: 2006-05-21 04:29 am (UTC)When I went off to college, my mom got me a big-ass bottle of generic acetaminophen, which I barely used at all. (My pain tends to respond better to ibuprofen.) The bottle was mostly full even well after its expiration date. When I moved out to AZ -- 5 years later -- I opened the bottle just once before deciding whether to throw it away. Sure enough, it smelled very strongly of vinegar.