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Methylated spirit

noun
1.
Ethyl alcohol denatured with methyl alcohol to prevent its use as an alcoholic beverage.





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... "Mike drinks methylated spirit and the shepherds have a bottle of squareface each on Sunday afternoons when Betty and Andrew and I look after the sheep. Nothing hurts us. We're hard people ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles
... hydroxide (C{2}H{5}OH) with not more than 1 per cent. by weight of water. Rectified spirit (spiritus rectificatus) contains 90 per cent. of alcohol. Methylated spirit consists of rectified spirit with 10 per cent. of wood spirit. Proof spirit contains a little over 49 per cent. of absolute alcohol; brandy or whisky, 53 per cent.; port wine, 20 to 25 per cent.; ales and stout, 4 ...
— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson


Words linked to "Methylated spirit" :   denatured alcohol, surgical spirit


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