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AL'COHOL, n. [Heb. to paint with a preparation of powder of antimony. The oriental females still practice the painting of the eye brows with this material. The name was applied to this substance, and afterwards to other fine powders, and to highly rectified spirits.]
An impalpable
powder.
[Obs.] The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by
distillation.
[Obs.] Boyle. Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified
spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating
element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid
containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple
distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine
nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.
* As used in the U. S. "Pharmacopœia," alcohol contains 91 per cent by weight of ethyl alcohol and 9 per cent of water; and diluted alcohol (proof spirit) contains 45.5 per cent by weight of ethyl alcohol and 54.5 per cent of water. A class of compounds
analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are
hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common
or ethyl alcohol (C2H5.OH); methyl forms
methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms
amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil,
etc.
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