wood alcohol

See also: wood-alcohol

English

Etymology

Originally manufactured by the destructive distillation of wood.

Noun

wood alcohol (countable and uncountable, plural wood alcohols)

1. (organic chemistry) The compound methyl alcohol or methanol.

Translations

methanol

• Bulgarian: метилов алкохол (metilov alkohol)
• Catalan: alcohol de fusta m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 木醇 (zh) (mùchún)

• Finnish: puusprii (fi)
• French: alcool de bois (fr) m
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• Hungarian: faszesz (hu)
• Icelandic: tréspíri m
• Romanian: spirt de lemn (ro) n
• Swedish: träsprit (sv) c