absolute alcohol

American  

noun

1. ethyl alcohol containing less than one percent by weight of water.

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absolute alcohol British  

noun

1. a liquid containing at least 99 per cent of pure ethanol by weight

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Example Sentences

Cold absolute alcohol drips into the balloon through attached tubing until the patient feels his stomach distended, as though after a heavy meal.

From Time Magazine Archive

The caustic which Dr. Cutler prefers is a "modified Carnoy's solution": absolute alcohol 6 c. c., chloroform 3 c. c., glacial acetic acid i c.c., ferric chloride 1 gm.

From Time Magazine Archive

The chloride crystallizes in colourless rhombic tables of specific gravity 3.0 and is readily soluble in water, but is almost insoluble in concentrated hydrochloric acid and in absolute alcohol.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

When heated with sodium and absolute alcohol, it is converted into hydrocoumarone, C8H8O, and ethyl phenol.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various

Pour off the solution through a filter into a weighed dish and wash out the flask with a mixture of three parts absolute ether and two parts absolute alcohol.

From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by Thomssen, E. G.