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Ethyl alcohol

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Ethyl alcohol, also known as ethanol or grain alcohol, is a flammable, colorless chemical compound, one of the alcohols that is most often found in alcoholic beverages. In common parlance, it is often referred to simply as alcohol.

 


Ethyl alcohol; grain alcohol; hydroxyethane; drinking alcohol
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Ethyl alcohol (ethanol) is, by a wide margin, the most widely used drug in most of the world. Its popularity comes not from its sedative effect but from the sense of well-being that it induces at low doses.

ethanol Ethyl alcohol is the end product of anaerobic respiration (fermentation) in plants.
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A catabolic process that makes a limited amount of ATP from glucose without an electron transport chain and that produces a characteristic end-product, such as ethyl alcohol or lactic acid.
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See also: Alcohol, Trans, Oxygen, Organ, Species

Biology EthologyEubacteria

 
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