METHANOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does methanol mean? 

• METHANOL (noun)
  The noun METHANOL has 1 sense:

1. a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol

  Familiarity information: METHANOL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METHANOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

methanol; methyl alcohol; wood alcohol; wood spirit

Hypernyms ("methanol" is a kind of...):

alcohol (any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation)

fuel (a substance that can be consumed to produce energy)

Meronyms (substance of "methanol"):

allyl alcohol; propenyl alcohol (an unsaturated primary alcohol present in wood spirit; use to make resins and plasticizers and pharmaceuticals)

 Context examples 

The team found that 45P has a larger-than-average share of frozen methanol.

(NASA Telescope Studies Quirky Comet 45P, NASA)

Methanol catches fire easily and is very poisonous.

(Methanol, NCI Dictionary)

Smears are prepared, rapidly fixed in methanol and stained.

(Epithelial Cell Aggregation and Separation, NCI Thesaurus)

Though methanol is a relatively simple compound compared to other organic molecules, it nonetheless is essential to the formation of more complex organic molecules, like those that ALMA recently observed, among others.

(Stellar Embryos in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Contain Surprisingly Complex Organic Molecules, National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

A saturated solution of formaldehyde, water, and typically another agent, most commonly methanol.

(Formaldehyde Solution, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called methanol and wood alcohol.

(Methyl alcohol, NCI Dictionary)

This species is motile by single polar flagellum, alpha glucosidase and alkaline phosphatase positive, catalase positive, has pink tinted colonies, and produces acid from galactose, xylose and methanol.

(Methylobacterium mesophilicum, NCI Thesaurus)

A liquid preservative for cytological materials, consisting of methanol and glacial acetic acid in an approximately 3:1 ratio.

(Methacarn, NCI Thesaurus)

Fomepizole is indicated for use as an antidote in ethylene glycol and methanol poisoning.

(Fomepizole, NCI Thesaurus)

A colorless poisonous gas synthesized by the oxidation of methanol and used as an antiseptic, disinfectant, histologic fixative, and general-purpose chemical reagent for laboratory applications.

(Formaldehyde, NCI Thesaurus)