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Methanol

Methanol

See also: methanol and méthanol

German

Noun

Methanol n ‎(genitive Methanols, no plural)

(organic chemistry) methanol

methanol

methanol

See also: Methanol and méthanol

English

Noun

methanol ‎(countable and uncountable, plural methanols)

(organic chemistry) 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.

Synonyms

methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood naphtha, wood spirits

Translations

the simplest aliphatic alcohol, CH₃OH

Abkhaz: аметано́л (ab) ‎(āmeṭānól)
Chinese:

Cantonese: 甲醇 ‎(gaap³ seon⁴)

Mandarin: 甲醇 (zh) ‎(jiǎchún)
Finnish: metanoli (fi)
German: Methanol (de) n
Greek: μεθανόλη f ‎(methanóli)
Hungarian: metanol (hu)
Icelandic: metanól n
Italian: metanolo (it) m
Japanese: メタノール (ja) ‎(metanōru)

Norwegian:

Bokmål: metanol m

Nynorsk: metanol m
Portuguese: metanol (pt) m
Romanian: metanol (ro) m
Russian: метано́л (ru) m ‎(metanól)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: мета̀но̄л m

Roman: metànōl (sh) m
Slovene: metanól m
Spanish: metanol m
Swedish: metanol (sv) c
Thai: เมทานอล, เมทิลแอลกอฮอล์

See also

methanol on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

on the lam

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /meːtaːˈnɔl/

Etymology

From methaan +‎ -ol.

Noun

methanol m ‎(uncountable)

(organic chemistry) methanol