Certain spirits

Usage examples of alcohols.

Even after all these years, the air in the complex was tainted with the acrid scent of chemicals, as if decades' worth of nitric acid, sulfuric acid, ammonia, mercury, and a host of esters and alcohols had permanently stained the air.

He would start in the radio spectrum, mapping the natural emissions of the cloud's fragile molecules—hydroxyl radicals and carbon monoxide, alcohols, amides and amines, and many others.