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An impalpable powder.

The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.

Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

An impalpable powder.

The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.

Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

A colorless liquid formed by the fermentation of a watery sugar solution, usually prepared by the action of malt on starch; a powerful stimulant and antiseptic; an intoxicant.

Alcoholic.

Distillation product of fermented saccharine fluids.

Pure spirit, a liquid generated by the fermentation of sugar and other saccharine matter, and forming the intoxicating element of fermented liquors.

A spirit distilled from fermented liquors.

Alcoholise.

Alcoholise.

The intoxicating principle of wines and liquors; pure distilled spirits; ardent spirits.

An Arabic word, formerly used for an impalpable powder, and signifying 'very subtile, much divided.' At the present day it is applied to highly rectified spirit of wine :-see Spiritus rectificatus or rectified spirit, distilled from dried subcarbonate of potassa. In the Ph. U. S., Alcohol is rectified spirit of the specific gravity 0.835. The Dublin college has a spiritus fortior, used in the preparation of certain essences, whose specific gravity is.818. Alcohol, absolute alcohol, of the Edinburgh and Dublin Pharmacopoeias, is of specific gravity.797. Alcohol is an inflammable liquor, lighter than water, of a warm, acrid taste, colourless, transparent, and of a pungent, aromatic smell. It is the product of the distillation of vinous liquors; is miscible with water in all proportions, and is the direct solvent of resins, balsams, &c. Various other vegetable principles are soluble in it, and hence it is used, in different states of concentration, in the preparation of elixirs, tinctures, essences, &c. Alcohol acts on the animal body as a powerful stimulus: as such, in a dilute form, it is used in the prevention and cure of disease. Its habitual and inordinate use is the cause of many serious affections, of a chronic character especially, as visceral obstructions, dropsy, &c.

Ethyl hydrate, C2H5OH, a liquid distilled from products of vinous ferments.

Any compound of a hydrocarbon with hydroxyl: a term further extended to various substitution products.

The pure spirit of wine, ethyl alcohol or ethyl hydroxid, C2H5OH, obtained by distillation from all liquids which have undergone vinous fermentation. When it contains about an equal weight of water, it is termed proof spirit. The first product of distillation is technically called low wines and is again subjected to distillation. The latter portions of what comes over are called feints and are reserved for a further process in the wash-bowl. The second product is termed raw spirit and when again distilled is called rectified spirit. The strongest alcohol that can be produced is termed absolute alcohol, or anhydrous alcohol, to denote its entire freedom from water.

The U. S. Ph. name for a liquid composed of 91 per cent, by weight (94 per cent, by volume) of absolute ethyl alcohol and 9 per cent, by weight (6 per cent, by volume) of water. Alcohol is used by some as a heart stimulant in diseases associated with debility or depression of the system, as typhoid and typhus fever, diphtheria, etc., generally in the form of wine or spirits. Locally, alcohol is antiseptic and astringent and is used in the preservation of anatomical and biological preparations. It is also universally used in the making of tinctures and fluid extracts.

n. [Arabic] Pure or highly rectified spirits; loosely applied to ardent spirits in general.

A high rectified spirit of wine.