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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ethanol
noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
pure
▪ However, industry needs about 1.5 million tonnes of pure ethanol, free from water, each year.
▪ Commercially pure ethanol is produced using a variety of chemical reactions to eliminate the water.
▪ It was not possible to construct a satisfactory double blind challenge but he did have a positive open challenge to pure ethanol.
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▪ Apparently, natural selection favored creatures that could get rid of these tiny quantities of ethanol.
▪ Blood samples analyzed for ethanol were obtained if the patient returned to the clinic for his bi-monthly interview.
▪ Davenport found that ethanol solutions with a concentration above 10% produced mucosal damage.
▪ First, cool ethanol molecules have less vibrational energy than warm ethanol molecules.
▪ However, industry needs about 1.5 million tonnes of pure ethanol, free from water, each year.
▪ The catalysed conversion of methanol to ethanol by reaction with syn-gas, is also possible but not yet commercial.
▪ The mixture was extracted twice with phenol-chloroform and precipitated with ethanol.
▪ The overall structural shape of ethanol is important as well.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ethanol

ethanol \eth"an*ol\ ([e^]th"[a^]n*[add]l), n. (Chem.) The organic compound C2H5.OH, the common alcohol which is the intoxicating agent in beer, wine, and other fermented and distilled liquors; called also ethyl alcohol. It is used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions, or mixed in gasoline as a fuel for automobiles, and as a rocket fuel (as in the V-2 rocket).

Syn: ethyl alcohol, fermentation alcohol, grain alcohol.

ethanol

Alcohol \Al"co*hol\ ([a^]l"k[-o]*h[o^]l), n. [Cf. F. alcool, formerly written alcohol, Sp. alcohol alcohol, antimony, galena, OSp. alcofol; all fr. Ar. al-kohl a powder of antimony or galena, to paint the eyebrows with. The name was afterwards applied, on account of the fineness of this powder, to highly rectified spirits, a signification unknown in Arabia. The Sp. word has both meanings. Cf. Alquifou.]

  1. An impalpable powder. [Obs.]

  2. The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation. [Obs.]
    --Boyle.

  3. Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol or ethanol, CH3.CH2.OH); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

    Note: [The ferementation is usually carried out by addition of brewer's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae to an aqueous solution containing carbohydrates.]

    Note: As used in the U. S. ``Pharmacop[oe]ia,'' alcohol contains 91 per cent by weight of ethyl alcohol and 9 per cent of water; and diluted alcohol (proof spirit) contains 45.5 per cent by weight of ethyl alcohol and 5

  4. 5 per cent of water.

    4. (Organic Chem.) A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol ( C2H

  5. OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol ( CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol ( C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ethanol

"ethyl alcohol," 1900, contracted from ethane, to which it is the corresponding alcohol, + -ol, here indicating alcohol.

Wiktionary
ethanol

n. 1 (context organic compound English) A simple aliphatic alcohol formally derived from ethane by replacing one hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group: CH3-CH2-OH. 2 ''Specifically'', this alcohol as a fuel.

WordNet
ethanol

n. the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline [syn: ethyl alcohol, fermentation alcohol, grain alcohol]

Wikipedia
Ethanol (data page)

This page provides supplementary chemical data on ethanol. Except where noted otherwise, data relate to standard ambient temperature and pressure.

Ethanol (disambiguation)
  • Ethanol, is a chemical and intoxicant.

Ethanol may also refer to:

  • Ethanol fuel, used to power vehicles
Ethanol

Ethanol , also commonly called alcohol, ethyl alcohol, and drinking alcohol, is the principal type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, produced by the fermentation of sugars by yeasts. It is a neurotoxic, psychoactive drug, and one of the oldest recreational drugs. It can cause alcohol intoxication when consumed in sufficient quantity.

Ethanol is a volatile, flammable, colorless liquid with a slight chemical odor. It is used as an antiseptic, a solvent, a fuel, and due to its low freezing point, the active fluid in many alcohol thermometers. The molecule is a simple one, being an ethyl group linked to a hydroxyl group. Its structural formula, , is often abbreviated as , or EtOH.

The stem word "eth-" used in many related compounds originates with the German word for ethanol (äthyl).

Usage examples of "ethanol".

Although I interviewed close to twenty sources in the oil and ethanol industries, including lobbyists, engineers, lawyers, consultants, environmental toxicologists, and other professionals, not one individual consented to have his or her name mentioned in connection with this book.

Did you know that it takes more energy to produce ethanol than the stuff generates as a fuel?

Oxygenates, such as ethanol and MTBE, had proven effective in reducing air pollutants.

The increased demand for ethanol as a gasoline additive in many states, but particularly in the huge California market, has spurred the US government to continue its exemption of the federal fuel tax on ethanol.

California and other states remain undersupplied because of our continued inability to provide ethanol in sufficient quantity and, without the government subsidy program, at a profitable cost.

A square-jawed woman with cropped hair reported on poster production and efforts to get Ascendist leaflets into the hands of the human workers at the ethanol plant and other Nar-directed enterprises serving the human quarter.

For a starter, we should demand that the ethanol plant and the grainworks be turned over entirely to us.

He had drunk a pint of ethanol on the way over from the hotel, and now he was lying on his back and staring up at the gray sky.

Beneath most of the halos, groups of Wrackers drank ethanol and listened to boom boxes.

The wind seemed to be losing strength with each mouthful of cherried ethanol he swallowed.

The ethanol rule was meant to double the use of ethanol in gasoline, providing a boon to corn farmers.

In the kitchen he checked and rechecked the locks on the windows, then became absorbed in cleaning the panes with a homemade mixture of ethanol and the juice of four lemons purchased weeks ago as a preventative against scurvy.

Cordelia drifted up to Kou and murmured a few words about Betan research on the detrimental effects of ethanol on sexual function, after which he switched to water.

An otoscope, a bottle of ethanol, iodine, sterile wrapped surgical needles.

Ran up a nice little hydroxylated triterpenoid to crank down the old ethanol dehydrogenase.