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   alcohol

   /ˈalkəhɒl/

   noun

   • 1. a colourless volatile flammable liquid which is produced by the natural fermentation of sugars and is the intoxicating constituent of wine, beer, spirits, and other drinks, and is also used as an industrial solvent and as fuel: "it is an offence to drive if you have more than 80 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood"
   • ▪ drink containing alcohol: "he has not taken alcohol in twenty-five years"
   • ▪ any organic compound whose molecule contains one or more hydroxyl groups attached to a carbon atom: "unpleasant stuff like formaldehyde is produced as alcohols burn"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: French (earlier form of alcool), or from medieval Latin, from Arabic al-kuḥl ‘the kohl’. In early use the term referred to powders, specifically kohl, and especially those obtained by sublimation; later ‘a distilled or rectified spirit’ (mid 17th century).

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