methol

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See also: méthol and metol

English

Etymology

From metho- +‎ -ol.

Noun

methol (plural methols)

  1. (organic chemistry) methyl alcohol; wood spirit
  2. (organic chemistry, by extension) Any of the series of alcohols of the methane series of which methol proper is the type.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “methol”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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