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Definition of Fermentation alcohol
1. Noun. The intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline.
Substance meronyms: Ethyl Alcohol, Neutral Spirits, Gasohol
Generic synonyms: Alcohol, Plant Product
Specialized synonyms: Spirits Of Wine, Absolute Alcohol, Denatured Alcohol
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fermentation Alcohol
Literary usage of Fermentation alcohol
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Industrial Chemistry: A Manual for the Student and Manufacturer by Allen Rogers (1920)
"Ethyl or fermentation alcohol. Ethyl, grain, or fermentation alcohol is obtained
by the fermentation of sugar solutions, under which heading the mashes from ..."
2. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"The first upon oxidation yields inactive, and the second active valeric acid.
When the crude fermentation alcohol is distilled with zinc chloride, ..."
3. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1899)
"The first upon oxidation yields inactive, and the second active valeric acid.
When the crude fermentation alcohol is distilled with zinc chloride, ..."
4. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"389 This was prepared by Pasteur and by Pedler from the fermentation-alcohol in
the mode already described. According to Le Bel it is also obtained from the ..."