noun
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Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH).
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Ethanol.
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Beverages containing ethanol, collectively.
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Any very fine powder.
Examples of alcohol in a Sentence
No alcohol, he reminded her.
Even his ability to find alcohol for a party was adventurous.
She snatched the lighter on the mantle and ran to the door, standing close until the alcohol lit and spread.
Connor finished his second drink and Jackson could see by the softening around his eyes that the alcohol had started to work its magic.
Violations, especially by those supplying alcohol to minors, should be dealt with severely.
She tried to tell herself it was the alcohol scattering her thoughts and not the growing feeling of respect or concern she felt toward him.
The first class include such changes as the alcoholic fermentation of sugar solutions, the acetic acid fermentation of alcohol, the lactic acid fermentation of milk sugar, and the putrefaction of animal and vegetable nitrogenous matter.
Alcohol buffered her from her all-out panic, enough so that she was able to sip coffee without dropping the mug.
She'd dared to hope again that everything was a hallucination brought on by too much alcohol, until Toby burst in chasing a cat she didn't remember owning.
What is it with immortals and alcohol?
You're not allowed alcohol.
He agreed with Pasteur that the presence of living cells is essential to the transformation of sugar into alcohol, but dissented from the view that the process occurs within the cell.
Pasteur found that, when cane sugar was fermented by yeast, 49.4% of carbonic acid and 51.1% of alcohol were produced; with expressed yeast juice cane sugar yields 47% of carbonic acid and 47.7% of alcohol.
Another fact of considerable technical importance is, that the various races of yeast show considerable differences in the amount and proportion of fermentation products other than ethyl alcohol and carbonic acid which they produce.
It is a crystalline body, soluble only in concentrated alcohol.
The group specially described as indirect taxes includes those on alcohol, wine, beer, cider and other alcoholic drinks, on passenger and goods traffic by railway, on licences to distillers, spirit-sellers, &c., on salt and on sugar of home manufacture.
It will not dissolve in water as gums do, but it is soluble in alcohol, as resin usually is.
The glycols are somewhat thick liquids, of high boiling point, the pinacones only being crystalline solids; they are readily soluble in water and alcohol, but are insoluble in ether.
Its industries include manufactures of cotton stuffs, alcohol and soap.
According to Louis Pasteur, about oth of the sugar transformed under ordinary conditions in the fermentation of grape juice and similar saccharine liquids into alcohol and other products becomes converted into glycerin.
It dissolves readily in water and alcohol in all proportions, but is insoluble in ether.
Commercial alcohol or "spirits of wine" contains about 90% of pure ethyl alcohol, the remainder being water.
In both forms it is usual to have the space between the bulb and the protecting sheath partly filled with mercury or alcohol to act as a conductor and reduce the time necessary for the thermometer to acquire the temperature of its surroundings.
It crystallizes in short hard prisms, which are readily soluble in water but insoluble in alcohol.
No alcohol is served at the cafe, although patrons are welcome to bring their own.
Dean instinctively sniffed the air for the smell of cordite but his nostrils picked up only the scent of alcohol.
It was like being drunk, but on a person, not alcohol.
Daniela observed her for a moment then replaced the cup with a glass filled with the alcohol.
Her headache pulsed and she felt hot from alcohol.
He touched her neck, and she waited, assuming he'd take blood from her despite his distaste of alcohol.
The human had spent most of the evening pacing around the cell, trying to make some sense of everything, stopping only briefly to eat, in an effort to soak up all the alcohol.
He knew she was on borrowed time given the alcohol's delayed reaction.
Other things included smoking, using drugs or alcohol.
The yellow precipitate obtained is washed with a solution of potassium acetate and finally with dilute alcohol.
From the foregoing it will be seen that the term fermentation has now a much wider significance than when it was applied to such changes as the decomposition of must or wort with the production of carbon dioxide and alcohol.
The chloride,CdC1 2, bromide,CdBr 2, and iodide,Cdl2,arealsoknown, cadmium iodide being sometimes used in photography, as it is one of the few iodides which are soluble in alcohol.
It crystallizes in needles and is soluble in alcohol.
Alcohol has undergone various oscillations, according to the legislation governing distilleries.
It is soluble in absolute alcohol and in ether.
Various solvents, such as benzene, alcohol and chloroform, will dissolve out the pigment, leaving the plastid colorless.
This comes in almost all such cases from the decomposition of sugar, which is split up by the protoplasm into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
The crystalline form appears to be due entirely to the carotin, which can be artificially crystallized from an alcohol or ether solution.
Hantzsch (Ber., 1901, 34, p. 3337) has shown that in the action of alcohols on diazonium salts an increase in the molecular weight of the alcohol and an accumulation of negative groups in the aromatic nucleus lead to a diminution in the yield of the ether produced and to the production of a secondary reaction, resulting in the formation of a certain amount of an aromatic hydrocarbon.
The breathing becomes shallow, the drug killing, like nearly all neurotic poisons (alcohol, morphia, prussic acid, &c.), by paralysis of the respiratory centre, and the patient dying in a state of coma.
It is a yellow, microcrystalline powder, soluble in water, alcohol and chloroform, and forming readily decomposed salts with acids.
Red wine, a smaller quantity of white, grape alcohol and wine alcohol are produced.
The gas is much more soluble in alcohol.
It is readily soluble in alcohol and in water, the solution.
The residue is dissolved in alcohol and to the cold saturated solution a cold alcoholic solution of picric acid is added.
Macabebe's principal industries are the cultivation of rice and sugar cane, the distilling of nipa alcohol, and the weaving of hemp and cotton fabrics.