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carbinol definition

car·bi·nol (kär′bə nôl′, -nōl′)

noun

  1. methanol
  2. any alcohol bearing a homologous relation to methanol, as diethyl carbinol

Etymology: Ger < carbin (name used by A. Kolbe, 19th-c. Ger chemist, for the methyl radical) + -ol

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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