CARBINOL
Noun
carbinol (usually uncountable, plural carbinols)
(obsolete, organic compound, uncountable) The compound methanol.
(obsolete, organic chemistry, countable) Any substituted methanol.
Source: Wiktionary
Car"bi*nol, n. Etym: [Carbin (Kolbe's name for the radical) + -ol.] (Chem.)
Definition: Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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