Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colorless, toxic, flammable liquid, CH3OH, used as an antifreeze, a general solvent, a fuel, and a denaturant for ethyl alcohol.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The official, scientific name for methyl alcohol, CH3OH.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) The simplest alcohol of the paraffin series, CH3.OH; methyl alcohol. Called also
wood alcohol . It is used as an antifreeze solvent, as a fuel, and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry The simplest
aliphatic alcohol , CH3OH; acolourless ,toxic ,inflammable liquid , used as asolvent ,antifreeze , in thechemical industry , and in the preparation ofmethylated spirit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Windshield washer fluid, dry gas and antifreeze contain methanol and ethylene glycol and are extremely dangerous.
Holiday Hazards 2010
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The MIT team focused on direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs), in which the methanol is directly used as the fuel and reforming of alcohol down to hydrogen is not required.
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The MIT team focused on direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs), in which the methanol is directly used as the fuel and reforming of alcohol down to hydrogen is not required.
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Currently methanol is still produced from fossil fuels, predominantly from natural gas through syn-gas (a mixture of CO and H2) by so-called Fisher-Tropsch chemistry, which is however a highly energy vasting process.
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ACRA to roll out initiatives to encourage voluntary compliance of financial statements Jurong Shipyard to negotiate with Seadrill on sale of jackup drilling rig China Energy signs long term methanol supply deal with Jiutai Inner Mongolia
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ACRA to roll out initiatives to encourage voluntary compliance of financial statements Leisure boating industry appears to be recovering from recession China Energy signs long term methanol supply deal with Jiutai Inner Mongolia
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China Energy signs long term methanol supply deal with Jiutai Inner Mongolia
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China Energy signs long term methanol supply deal with Jiutai Inner Mongolia
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ACRA to roll out initiatives to encourage voluntary compliance of financial statements Jurong Shipyard to negotiate with Seadrill on sale of jackup drilling rig China Energy signs long term methanol supply deal with Jiutai Inner Mongolia
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That's because it reintroduces ethanol (alcohol) into your system at a point when your liver is breaking down an alcoholic compound called methanol, which is more toxic than the ethanol.
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