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  • Glossary item | Last updated: 25 Mar 2024

Ethanol

Bioeconomy
Ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol, pure alcohol, grain alcohol, or drinking alcohol, is often abbreviated as EtOH. EtOH is a light alcohol and is a volatile, colourless, flammable liquid with a characteristic odour. EtOH burns with an almost invisible flame and is biodegradable. 
 
ETIP Bioenergy, Ethanol facsheet, accessed on 25 March 2024

Source category: International Organisation

An inflammable organic compound (C2H5OH) formed during fermentation of sugars; used as an intoxicant and as a fuel.

Glossary, Biomass Processes and Chemicals, Elsevier, 2022, p. 374, ISBN 9780128216798, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821679-8.15004-5.
 

Source category: Scientific & Technical Literature