ethanol

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline

The exact same thing happened to me once in a Chem 201 lab-- during an after-hours endeavor wherein I was steaming out a twenty- gallon benzene container preparatory to an experiment on the propensity of brewer's yeast to convert grape sugar into potable ethanol. — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover

ethyl alcohol, fermentation alcohol, grain alcohol

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