wood alcohol
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of wood alcohol
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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Methyl alcohol, also known as wood alcohol, is unsafe for human consumption and finds use in products from paint thinners to fuel, pesticides and anti-freeze, among others.
From Reuters • Jul. 27, 2022
Sometimes called wood alcohol, methanol is widely used in antifreeze, varnishes, cologne, copying machine fluids, paint and fuel.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2020
The legitimate role of government is to find, define and enforce the balance between prohibition and wood alcohol in the gin.
From New York Times • May 31, 2014
Professor Franz Fischer of Mulheim-Ruhr takes this same wood alcohol and builds up a petroleum-like fuel.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the same way there is said to be a spread all over the world of Christian Science, proportional representation, militarism, peace sentiment, barbarism, altruism, psychoanalysis and death from wood alcohol.
From My Discovery of England by Leacock, Stephen
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