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A Fuel Cell Under Our Nast in Breath Analyzers

Breathelizers are devices that analyze the molecules in your breath. If there is enough ethenal, then it would chemically react with the anode to power a fuel cell and generate an electric current. This can be mathematically translated to an estimate of your blood alcohol content. You can still get fuel sell brethalizers that work like this. But i guess drinking alcohol and breathing it in a many fuel cell is one of them, which is so weird. That is verya i mean, ethnol fuel, you put it into a fuel cell, you generate electricity with your drunkenness. Is it enough to shock me? It's what i want to know. I probly

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