Conversely, Fe 2 O 3 is reduced to iron metal, which means that aluminum must be the reducing agent. Because a reducing agent is always transformed into its conjugate oxidizing agent in an oxidation-reduction reaction, the products of this reaction include a new oxidizing agent (Al 2 O 3) and a new reducing agent (Fe).
, functional alcoholic. They shouldn't be banned, because they don't seem particularly harmful. Rather, the bans seem like a case of reactionary legislatures. The Washington ban was due to a party in which kids, who'd drank a caffeinated alcoholic drink along with vodka, rum, and beer [1], got alcohol poisoning.
This age segregation leads the drinking away from adults, who could model moderation. The roots of this extreme drinking lie in our own history. Prohibition, which banned most alcohol in the United States from 1920 to 1933, normalized the frenzied sort of drinking that occurs today at college parties. In speakeasies and blind pigs, the goal was to drink as much and as soon as possible, because you never knew when the feds would show up.