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Question
Intake of small quantity of methanol can be lethal. Comment.
Answer in Brief
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Solution
Intake of small quantity of methanol can be lethal because methanol is oxidised to methanal in the liver and methanal reacts rapidly with the components of the cell. It coagulates the protoplasm, in much the same way an egg is coagulated by cooking.
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