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Breathalyzer

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Breathalyzer

Trademark for an instrument for on-the-spot checking by police of the amount of alcohol consumed by a suspect driver. The driver breathes into a plastic bag connected to a tube containing a chemical (such as a diluted solution of potassium dichromate in 50% sulphuric acid) that changes colour in the presence of alcohol. Another method is to use a gas chromatograph, again from a breath sample.



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Although he refused a Breathalyzer test, his license was not suspended, as the law requires.
The company that makes this also sells pocket breathalyzers.
We still have a bar in our parties," said Katal, "but there is security so no one can get outside the building with drinks, and there are breathalyzers where people can voluntarily check how much they've had to drink.
 
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