ethanol Chem.
(ˈɛθənɒl)
= ethyl alcohol.
| 1900 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. A. LXXVIII. i. 618 Ethanol mercury salts in alkaline solution yield no precipitate with potassium sulphide. 1946 Nature 23 Nov. 744/2 A solution of the substance in 10 per cent aqueous ethanol gave no coloration with ferric chloride. 1964 N. G. Clark Mod. Org. Chem. viii. 125 The first three alkanols are methanol, ethanol, propanol. |