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To: chris@ot*.hs*.sc*.ed*
Subject: RE: A Quinine Connection Question
From: <4700gbera@um*.cc*.um*.ed*>
Cc: techdiver@opal.com
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 11:20:57 EDT

Anything other than CO2 (or presumably O2, N2, etc), when dissolved in
the water, will compete with the gas for water molecules to bind to. The
gas, having fewer water molecules available to associate with (H-bonding,
Van Der Waal's force), thus bubbles off at a faster rate. My favorite
example is the way Coke (the soda) fizzes when you add a shot of Mont
Gay rum....

Your blood/serum is already LOADED with dissolved/colloidal matter, so
I doubt if ingestion of quinine is going to significantly effect the
solubility of nitrogen in it; the subsequent biochemical rxns to bubble
formation are another matter entirely (platelets, complement, et al).

Dave Ventre
Quincy, MA

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