Methanol Definition

mĕthə-nôl, -nōl, -nŏl
noun
A colorless, volatile, flammable, poisonous liquid, CH3OH, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood and synthesized chiefly from carbon monoxide and hydrogen: it is used in organic synthesis, as a fuel, solvent, and antifreeze, and in the manufacture of formaldehyde, smokeless powders, paints, etc.; methyl alcohol.
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Noun

Singular:
methanol
Plural:
methanols

Origin of Methanol

  • From methane +"Ž -ol.

    From Wiktionary

  • methan(e) –ol

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Methanol Sentence Examples

  • It will contain methanol or ethanol, neither of which you would want to drink.

  • For each reading, first set the instrument to read zero absorbance with a tube containing acidified methanol alone (the blank ).

  • If you start drinking enough methanol to get inebriated, you overwhelm your liver's metabolic machinery, and serious problems result.

  • Neither ethanol nor methanol is a viable alternative in the UK at the moment.

  • The samples were extracted with 80 per cent aqueous methanol at room temperature, using a procedure based on that of Barnes et al.

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Words Starting With

MMEMET

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