Question

What is proof?

A. A measure of the amount of alcohol in a drink
B. A colorless, volatile, and flammable liquid that is widely used in cleaning solutions
C. The chemical process in which yeast, sugar, and water are combined to produce alcohol
D. All of the above are correct.

Answer 1

@ganeshie8 @Hayhayz @SapphireMoon

Answer 2

@Miracrown @mathmate @inkyvoyd

Answer 3

Have you tried looking up "proof" in the dictionary? ;)

Answer 4

um yes

Answer 5

@chycora
Please provide context.
Proof of what?
A driver is intoxicated? That a liquid is alcohol? That someone illegally brewing alcohol?

Answer 6

I found these definitions:
"the strength of distilled alcoholic liquor, relative to proof spirit taken as a standard of 100."
"activate (yeast) by the addition of liquid."
Does that help?

Answer 7

A or D.
Cin cin, et bon appetit ! I believe you can get some pretty strong hooch in Eastern Europe. Cold there, but I wouldn't try it.

Answer 8

i would personally say i'd choose answer choice D. however, i am not saying that's the right answer. it's just a possibility.
answer option A is like what you would read on a bottle of alcohol, "80 proof."
based off the definitions sapphiremoon gave, it sounds like both A and C are viable options, and so i'm gonna go out on a leap here when i say that that'd mean b is, too. that being said, i'd choose D. but that's just me.

Answer 9

if faiithhh has read the other posts more thoroughly than I have, and come to the D conclusion well, it's worth a flick.
Confused consumers are we and this is the "proof". (Sorry about the lousy humour).
maybe a wee tipple would help ? (ok, not if there's teetotalism involved)

Answer 10

it was A

Answer 11

@chycora So it's the pure measure of the alcohol content, as (possibly) printed on the bottle of "legal" hooch. That helps. pub beer served in pints probably goes as far as about 8%. Then as you go up in proof, you SHOULD go down in dose. Wine may be about 20% and then you may get on to the good old "still" or distillery much in evidence during the US prohibition (teetotallers vs all comers, and very very violent). Bottle of brandy (distilled wine, I think) comes in at 36% vol for "French Prince Consort". So, they should be having a "nip" or a "wee drop" of that stuff. Often, it seems, used to warm people up and as an anaesthetic. Alcohol can, of course, be made in a chemical lab ... and in eastern europe (which may be similar things). I don't know if there IS such a thing as "wood alcohol" but since wood is organic, it's possible it can be fermented and distilled.
I'd also make the point that this is territory that NEEDS VERY CAREFUL NAVIGATION, ESPECIALLY in the hands of naive young drinkers.
If alcohol is fundamentally a PRESERVATIVE, then the expression "pickled liver" may have some significance.
Drink with GREAT CARE, basically.
Sorry about the waffle.

Answer 12

can you help me in biology please @osprey