Energy flows from producers to primary consumers, to secondary consumers, to tertiary consumers... Energy is lost between trophic levels in the form of heat through cell respiration, faeces, tissue loss and death. Some of this lost energy is used by detritivores and saprotrophs.
Methanol, acetone, and isopropanol belong to the first group. These substances were detected and proposed as alcoholism indicators in connection with congener alcohol analyses of blood samples from DWIs. Methanol, in particular, has been adopted as a powerful indicator of alcohol misuse.
Along with ethanol, isopropyl alcohol is one of the types of alcohol commonly used as the primary ingredient of rubbing alcohol, the other ingredient being denatured alcohol. But to keep things simple, letâs just call it rubbing alcohol. Rubbing alcohol is known as surgical spirit in some countries, including the UK and Ireland. Under both names, the solution is typically 70% isopropyl alcohol or ethanol and 30% distilled water. Now, rubbing alcohol does come with a few cautions. Firstly, itâs got quite the aroma, so always use it in a well-ventilated area, serious, this stuff is strong.