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)

(organic chemistry) The compound methyl alcohol or methanol.
Synonym: wood spirit

Translations

methanol — see also methanol,‎ methyl alcohol

Bulgarian: метилов алкохол (metilov alkohol)
Catalan: alcohol de fusta m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 木醇 (zh) (mùchún)
Finnish: puusprii (fi), metanoli (fi)
French: alcool de bois (fr) m
German: Holzgeist (de) m (literally “wood spirit”)
Hungarian: faszesz (hu)
Icelandic: tréspíri m
Romanian: spirt de lemn (ro) n
Russian: древе́сный спирт m (drevésnyj spirt, literally “wood spirit”)
Swedish: träsprit (sv) c
Ukrainian: деревни́й спирт m (derevnýj spyrt, literally “wood spirit”)

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