noun
definition
The simplest aliphatic alcohol, CH3OH; a colourless, toxic, inflammable liquid, used as a solvent, antifreeze, in the chemical industry, and in the preparation of methylated spirit.
Examples of methanol in a Sentence
It will contain methanol or ethanol, neither of which you would want to drink.
For each reading, first set the instrument to read zero absorbance with a tube containing acidified methanol alone (the blank ).
If you start drinking enough methanol to get inebriated, you overwhelm your liver's metabolic machinery, and serious problems result.
Neither ethanol nor methanol is a viable alternative in the UK at the moment.
The samples were extracted with 80 per cent aqueous methanol at room temperature, using a procedure based on that of Barnes et al.
The same situation exists with the production of organic methanol, where pyrolysis reduces the efficiency to 40% energy positive.
A blend of ten percent ethanol fuel and ninety percent methanol powered the Honda engines in 2006.
Current biodiesel production technology reacts soy oil with methanol using toxic, corrosive and flammable sodium methoxide as a catalyst.
The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is.
A methanol extract of the dried powdered turmeric rhizome and curcumin were tested against 19 strains of H. pylori.
Multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is.
Until the late 1930s, methanol was the most widely used antifreeze.
This year the IRL is running a 90 percent methanol, 10 percent ethanol fuel blend in its cars.
Characterisation of a novel methanol dehydrogenase containing a Ba 2+ ion at the active site.
The astrometric precision will also enable proper motion studies, and accurate comparisions of oh masers with methanol, water and other species.
Until now methanol masers have been found only in association with massive young stellar objects.
The catalyst will also be employed for reforming to produce methanol, which could be used as a fuel.
Then there are more exotic options, like fuel cells using coal-based methanol.
The recovered methanol will be cooled by the exhaust air from the pneumatic valves.