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methyl alcohol

noun Chemistry.

a colorless, volatile, water-soluble, poisonous liquid, CH₄O, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood or the incomplete oxidation of natural gas, or produced synthetically from carbon monoxide and hydrogen, used chiefly as a solvent, a fuel, and an automobile antifreeze and in the synthesis of formaldehyde.

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Also called methanol, wood alcohol, wood spirit.

Origin:
1840–50

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a compound capable of changing state or becoming inactive when subjected to heat or radiation

any of a class of chemical compounds having the general formula ROH, where R represents an alkyl group and ?OH a hydroxyl group

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methyl alcohol

—n
	another name for methanol

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methyl alcohol n.
See methanol.

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methyl alcohol
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