methanol

See also: Methanol and méthanol

English

Etymology

From methane +‎ -ol.

Noun

methanol (countable and uncountable, plural methanols)

1. (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 (ametʼanól)
• Catalan: metanol m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 甲醇 (gaap³ seon⁴)

  Mandarin: 甲醇 (zh) (jiǎchún)

• Finnish: metanoli (fi)
• French: méthanol (fr), alcool de bois (fr)
• German: Methanol (de) n
• Greek: μεθανόλη (el) 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

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• 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
• Vietnamese: rượu mạnh gỗ, cồn gỗ

See also

• methanol on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• anthemol, hotelman, on the lam

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Dutch

Etymology

From methaan +‎ -ol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meːtaːˈnɔl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔl

Noun

methanol m (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) methanol