The liver metabolizes alcohol by using enzymes to change it into water, CO2 and fatty acids. It does not dissolve it in the technical sense. The rate at which a healthy liver can metabolize alcohol is about 6/10ths of an ounce (14 gr or 17 ml) per hour.
Average livers metabolize alcohol on a rate at or close to two ounces per hour. Healthier or larger livers can metabolize alcohol faster, with unhealthier or smaller livers metabolizing at a slower rate. The heritage of the person(s) metabolizing the alcohol is often thought to increase(or decrease) the rate of metabolism, but this is usually due to the size of the liver through genetics and not actually the ethnicity of the person.
A healthy male liver metabolizes alcohol at the rate of 6/10ths of an ounce of pure alcohol per hour, regardless of the source. (Women a bit slower, as they possess less of the enzyme that starts the process.) That is roughly the equivalent of a shot of 100-proof.
At a rate of one ounce per hour.
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1 unit = 1 hour
The liver metabolizes the alcohol in one drink per hour.
About one hour
Nothing can speed up the metabolism of alcohol, which occurs at about .015 of BAC every hour.
A healthy functioning liver "processes" alcohol at a rate of 1 unit per hour.
The rate that the liver can burn up the alcohol is 1/2 ounce per hour.
In the case of alcohol this refers to the amount of time it takes to process alcohol into it's metabolites. This is done at a rate of approx. 1 ounce in one hour in most humans.
About 95% of the alcohol is processed by the liver.
0.6 ounces per hour (with a healthy liver).
Alcohol is metabolized by the liver, at the rate of about 0.6 ounces (14 ml) per hour of pure alcohol (assuming a healthy liver).
About one hour.
1/2 ounce