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Old 11th Dec 2004, 20:39
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Accepting the figures from both U_R and S_S:

Body mass = 75kg x 0.68 = 51kg (effective mass)

Bottle = 750ml x 13% (ABV) = 97.5ml alcohol x 0.8 (SG) = 78g

So a bottle of wine would give a blood alcohol figure of 78/51 = 153, reducing to below 20 after 9 hours.

Humans can vary widely in the rate at which alcohol is absorbed and in the rate at which it's eliminated, so these figures should be treated as a very rough estimate (but look plausible, to me anyway).
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