University of Tennessee Department of Chemical Engineering

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American Institute of Chemical Engineers Southern Regional Convention
Columbia, South Carolina, April 8-10, 1999

Eric began theorizing on the thermodynamic properties of a mixture of ethanol and carbonated water in a stirred tank.

Finding neither pure ethanol nor carbonated water readily available, Eric refused to be deterred, substituting instead a 40% ethanol solution and Mountain Dew.  For the stirred tank, he subsituted (What else?) a coffee pot.