Wiktionary
alt. (context organic compound English) An organic compound, HO-CH2-CH2-OH, and the chemical structure at right. It is a clear, colorless liquid under normal conditions, and is widely used as a vehicle engine coolant due to its anti-freeze properties. n. (context organic compound English) An organic compound, HO-CH2-CH2-OH, and the chemical structure at right. It is a clear, colorless liquid under normal conditions, and is widely used as a vehicle engine coolant due to its anti-freeze properties.
WordNet
n. a sweet but poisonous syrupy liquid used as an antifreeze and solvent [syn: glycol, ethanediol]
Wikipedia
Ethylene glycol ( IUPAC name: ethane-1,2-diol) is an organic compound with the formula (CHOH). It is mainly used for two purposes, as a raw material in the manufacture of polyester fibers and for antifreeze formulations. It is an odorless, colorless, sweet-tasting syrup. Ethylene glycol is moderately toxic.
This page provides supplementary chemical data on ethylene glycol.
Usage examples of "ethylene glycol".
The vapor detection device also found the presence of ethylene glycol dinitrate, a chemical marker that identified the explosive as being “.
All this was bad enough: but the frightening thing was that for every pint of radiator liquid lost and every pint of snow-water used to replace it, the anti-freeze became that much more diluted, and though we carried a small reserve drum of ethylene glycol its weight diminished perceptibly with every halt we made.
No way to see, of course, but I could imagine the pale blue solution-ethylene glycol and something else-foaming up around and over us.
It was the metering of the fluid squeezed by the piston from the cylinder-pure ethylene glycol, or antifreeze-through an adjustable orifice that controlled the rate at which the aircraft was arrested.
Phenols and nitrobenzene bring to mind ether and shoe polish respectively, and ethylene glycol smells exactly like antifreeze because that's exactly what it is.