Get to know Methanol better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like alcohol or fuel.
Methanol in a sentence
Methanol meaning
The simplest aliphatic alcohol, CH₃OH; a colourless, toxic, inflammable liquid, used as a solvent, antifreeze, in the chemical industry, and in the preparation of methylated spirit.
Using Methanol
- The main meaning on this page is: The simplest aliphatic alcohol, CH₃OH; a colourless, toxic, inflammable liquid, used as a solvent, antifreeze, in the chemical industry, and in the preparation of methylated spirit.
- Useful related words include: methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood spirit, alcohol.
- In the example corpus, methanol often appears in combinations such as: of methanol, methanol and, methanol is.
Context around Methanol
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 11 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Methanol
- In this selection, "methanol" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, green, top, atlantic, production, dragster and funny stand out and add context to how "methanol" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include dragster top methanol funny car and fuel top methanol dragster top. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "methanol" sits close to words such as amicable, amiga and ankles, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with methanol
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The boat will be run on MD-15 (15 per cent Methanol blended HSD). (14 words)
Ethanol and methanol engines Ethanol and methanol can take significantly higher compression ratios than gasoline. (15 words)
Fuel company St1 plans to base Finland’s first green methanol production plant in Lappeenranta. (15 words)
Hydrogen production at the Energy Hub will be scalable to allow export of hydrogen by sea to identified European markets through conversion to containerised ammonia or methanol or by direct pipeline to demand centres on the west coast Scottish mainland. (40 words)
The Atlantic Methanol Production announced the construction of a methanol-to-gasoline and derivatives unit with an aim of doubling down on planned investment in the expansion and diversification of the country's downstream sector. (35 words)
In coal-to-methanol or lignite-to-methanol plants, coal or lignite is first gasified into synthesis gas (syn gas) by mixing pulverized coal or lignite with an oxidant such as oxygen or steam. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
It's definitely more expensive than the green methanol, materially more expensive than green methanol, but the sales price is materially higher, obviously, than green methanol.
In coal-to-methanol or lignite-to-methanol plants, coal or lignite is first gasified into synthesis gas (syn gas) by mixing pulverized coal or lignite with an oxidant such as oxygen or steam.
The Atlantic Methanol Production announced the construction of a methanol-to-gasoline and derivatives unit with an aim of doubling down on planned investment in the expansion and diversification of the country's downstream sector.
Simply put, china doesn’t want to sell us their methanol, they want to buy our methanol.
China uses more than one billion gallons of methanol per year as a transportation fuel in low level blends for conventional vehicles and high level blends in vehicles designed for methanol fuels.
Each pair of these constituents forms a binary azeotrope, but chloroform/methanol and acetone/methanol both form positive azeotropes while chloroform/acetone forms a negative azeotrope.
Ethanol and methanol engines Ethanol and methanol can take significantly higher compression ratios than gasoline.
However, there are cases of methanol resistance, such as that of Mike Malloy who was the victim of a failed murder attempt by methanol in the early 1930s.
Methanol is required with a supercharged engine in a Top Alcohol Dragster and, until the end of the 2006 season, all vehicles in the Indianapolis 500 had to run on methanol.
Methanol's corrosivity has been addressed with methanol-compatible materials and fuel additives that serve as corrosion inhibitors.
The amount of methanol in aspartame is less than that found in fruit juices and citrus fruits, and there are other dietary sources for methanol such as fermented beverages.
The FIA features a different set of 5 pro classes; Top Fuel, Top Methanol Dragster, Top Methanol Funny Car, Pro Modified and Pro Stock.
The FIA organises a Europe-wide four wheeled championship for the Top Fuel, Top Methanol Dragster, Top Methanol Funny Car, Pro Modified and Pro Stock classes.
The ROF Bridgwater plant brought in ammonia and methanol as raw materials: the methanol was converted to formaldehyde and some of the ammonia converted to nitric acid, which was concentrated for RDX production.
Fuel company St1 plans to base Finland’s first green methanol production plant in Lappeenranta.
Gates said we should focus on being a pioneer for green hydrogen instead (I’m sure ), naming ammonia and methanol as minerals we are “lucky” to have in our earth.
Hydrogen production at the Energy Hub will be scalable to allow export of hydrogen by sea to identified European markets through conversion to containerised ammonia or methanol or by direct pipeline to demand centres on the west coast Scottish mainland.
Mr Bradley's sister, Beth, previously told Daily Mail Australia she suspected her brother may have been a victim of methanol poisoning - after being assured by friends no drugs were taken.
Other things being equal, you would need to spill 200 times more methanol than HFO to kill the same number of fish.
The boat will be run on MD-15 (15 per cent Methanol blended HSD).
Common combinations with methanol
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of methanol 23×
- methanol and 12×
- methanol is 10×
- and methanol 9×
- methanol poisoning 7×
- green methanol 6×
- methanol production 6×
- with methanol 6×
- methanol fuel 6×
- methanol can 5×