ethanol

See also Ethanol

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Contracted from ethyl + alcohol. Ethyl is from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithēr, “ether”), influenced by German Äthyl.

Noun

ethanol (usually uncountable; plural ethanols)

1. (organic chemistry) A simple aliphatic alcohol formally derived from ethane by replacing one hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group: CH₃-CH₂-OH.
2. Specifically, this alcohol as a fuel.
   • 2010 January 26, Ted Strickland, Ohio State of the State Address, 05:25–39:

     In 2007, not one drop of ethanol was produced in Ohio. Today, four ethanol facilities in Ohio are producing two hundred and ninety-five million gallons annually.

Synonyms

• (simple aliphatic alcohol): ‎alcohol‎, ‎ethyl alcohol‎, ‎E1510‎ (when used as a food additive)

Derived terms

• bioethanol

Translations

simple aliphatic alcohol: CH₃-CH₂-OH

• Afrikaans: etanol (af)
• Arabic: إيثانول (ar) (ʾiṯānūl) m
• Bulgarian: етанол (bg) (étanol) m
• Catalan: etanol (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乙醇 (cmn) (yǐchún)

• Czech: etanol (cs) m, ethanol (cs) m, ethylalkohol (cs) m
• Esperanto: etanolo (eo)
• Finnish: etanoli (fi)
• French: éthanol (fr) m
• German: Ethanol (de) n
• Greek: αιθανόλη (el) (aithanóli) f, αιθυλική αλκοόλη (el) (aithylikí alkoóli) f, οινόπνευμα (el) (oinópnevma) n

• Hebrew: אתנול (he) (étanol) m
• Hindi: दक्षिन्यव (hi) (dakshinyav)
• Ido: etanolo (io)
• Italian: etanolo (it) m
• Japanese: エタノール (ja) (etanōru)
• Korean: 에탄올 (ko) (etanol)
• Portuguese: etanol (pt) m
• Russian: этанол (ru) (étanol) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: етанол (sh) m

  Roman: etanol (sh) m

• Spanish: etanol (es) m
• Swedish: etanol (sv) c
• Turkish: etanol (tr)

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Czech

Noun

ethanol m

1. ethanol (simple aliphatic alcohol: CH3-CH2-OH)