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Definition of Ethanol

1. Noun. 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.

Definition of Ethanol

1. Noun. (organic compound) A simple aliphatic alcohol formally derived from ethane by replacing one hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group: CH₃-CH₂-OH. ¹

2. Noun. ''Specifically'', this alcohol as a fuel. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ethanol

1. an alcohol [n -S] - See also: alcohol

Medical Definition of Ethanol

1. Grain alcohol, made from sugar, starch and other carbohydrates by fermentation, has sedative properties (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ethanol

Literary usage of Ethanol

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"(3) that adding ethanol to the organ culture medium enhanced mineral accretion by ... The present study indicates that, in normal man, ethanol induces an ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Km of ADH for ethanol (12) and the Km of ADH for ethanol is one-third as large as the Km of ADH for metha- nol (13), (ii) the major involvement of catalase ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The value at 30° in ethanol is calculated with rate constants extrapolated from higher temperatures. Table II also contains kH/kD values for the reactions ..."

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