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the same molecule that fuels parties also fuels engines and disinfects your hands
means A type of alcohol made by fermenting sugars, found in alcoholic drinks and used as a fuel, solvent, and disinfectant.
from A 19th-century chemist's coinage: "eth-" from "ether," itself from Greek "aither" (the bright upper air), plus the "-ol" suffix that chemistry uses to flag an alcohol. So the name literally tags it as the alcohol of the ether family — a tidy bit of naming-by-committee from the people who systematized chemical nomenclature.
- car fuel
- Most US gasoline contains 10 percent ethanol
- space scent
- A gas cloud near Sagittarius B2 contains alcohol
- made by yeast
- Yeast excretes ethanol as a metabolic waste product
- freezing point
- Stays liquid down to minus 114 Celsius
- clean burn
- Combusts into carbon dioxide and water
brazil sugarcane ethanol — produces 33 billion liters annually, world's largest ethanol exporter since the 1970s
us corn ethanol — produces 60 billion liters annually, mandated in fuel blends under the renewable fuel standard
e85 fuel — 85% ethanol blend used in flex-fuel vehicles, widely available at us gas stations