methyl alcohol


noun Chemistry.

a colorless, volatile, water-soluble, poisonous liquid, CH4O, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood or the incomplete oxidation of natural gas, or produced synthetically from carbon monoxide and hydrogen, used chiefly as a solvent, a fuel, and an automobile antifreeze and in the synthesis of formaldehyde.

Origin of methyl alcohol

First recorded in 1840–50

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British Dictionary definitions for methyl alcohol

methyl alcohol

noun

another name for methanol

Medical definitions for methyl alcohol

methyl alcohol

n.

methanol

Scientific definitions for methyl alcohol

methyl alcohol

See methanol.