Product Description

Ethanol (ethanol), organic compound, molecular formula c2h6o, structural formula CH3CH2OH or C2H5OH, commonly known as alcohol, is the most common monohydric alcohol.

Ethanol is a kind of flammable, volatile, colorless and transparent liquid at normal temperature and pressure. It is low toxic, and pure liquid can not be directly drunk. It has special fragrance, slightly irritating, slightly sweet, and pungent taste. Flammable, its vapor can form explosive mixture with air, and can be mutually soluble with water in any ratio. It can be miscible with chloroform, ether, methanol, acetone and other organic solvents with a relative density of 0.**6 (d*5.*6).

Ethanol is widely used in the manufacture of acetic acid, beverages, flavors, dyes and fuels. In medical treatment, *0% - *5% ethanol is also commonly used as disinfectant, which is widely used in national defense chemical industry, medical and health care, food industry, industrial and agricultural production.

Ethanol and dimethyl ether are functional isomers

Ethanol is reductive and can be oxidized (catalytic oxidation) to acetaldehyde or even further oxidized to acetic acid.

The main culprit of alcoholism is usually acetaldehyde (ethanol can also be oxidized in the body, but it is slower because there is no catalyst), rather than ethanol that is drunk