Ethanol is the active principle in intoxicating drinks.
a. true
b. false

a. TRUE

Explanation:

Ethanol is a chemical compound present on all alcoholic beverages, is also known as drinking alcohol, and it is the active principle in intoxicating drinks.

Ethanol is also used as a fuel in several differen ethanol fueled engines, and can be added to gasoline to make it cleaner, in Brasil it is often used as a fuel since the country has low oil reserves.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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