Ethanol

H₃C-CH₂-OH

ethyl alcohol, C₂H₅OH
MW 46,07 g/mol

Properties

Ethanol, often referred to simply as alcohol, is clear, colorless liquid with aromatic odour and burning taste. Combustion with air-oxygen leads to carbondioxde and water. Therefore, agraric alcohol is used as motor fuel (bioethanol).

Ethanol is completly soluble with water, diethylether, chloroform, patrol, benzene in any mixture. With water, the mixture is volume contracted. Thus the density of ethanol-water mixtures are dependend from the relative ratio of both components in a non linear way.

Production

by fermentation of glucose containung substrates
distillation of agraric alcohol to brandy and industrial alcohol.
synthetical by catalytic hydration of ethylene at 250 bar pressure (industrial alcohol)

Usage:

mainly as alcoholic beverages,
in medicine for dermatological embrocation or cooling, for chirurgic desinfection
technical as solvent for fats, oils and resins, but also for perfume and cosmetics,
as starting material for numerous chemicals (p.e. ethylesters),
for conservation and disinfektion,
cheaply produced agraric alcohol as motor fuel.

For toxicokinetics see also resorption and elimination kinetics as well as Widmark-Formula.

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