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Webster 1913 Edition


Carbinol

Car′bi-nol

,
Noun.
[
Carbin
(Kolbe’s name for the radical) +
-ol
.]
(Chem.)
Methyl alcohol,
CH3OH
; – also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type.