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Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood naphtha or wood spirits, is a chemical with the formula CH3OH (often abbreviated MeOH). It is the simplest alcohol, and is a light, volatile, colorless, flammable liquid with a distinctive odor very similar to, but slightly sweeter than, ethanol (drinking alcohol). At room temperature, it is a polar liquid, and is used as an antifreeze, solvent, fuel, and as a denaturant for ethanol. It is also used for producing biodiesel via transesterification reaction.
Methanol is produced naturally in the anaerobic metabolism of many varieties of bacteria, and is ubiquitous in the environment. As a result, there is a small fraction of methanol vapor in the atmosphere. Over the course of several days, atmospheric methanol is oxidized with the help of sunlight to carbon dioxide and water.
Methanol burns in air, forming carbon dioxide and water:
Because of its toxic properties, methanol is frequently used as a denaturant additive for ethanol manufactured for industrial uses — this addition of methanol exempts industrial ethanol from liquor excise taxation. Methanol is often called wood alcohol because it was once produced chiefly as a byproduct of the destructive distillation of wood.
Check your points ignition timing countdown pressure
Thirty-four pounds when it's cold
Add more and torque it to its max select
Your drive position light a cigarette
And put the lights on bright and then go
Methanol
Fill with gas and let me check your oil and wipe your
Window shield top off your water's
Boilin grab a drink to go
Empty out your ashtray
And hang your loaded dice up
On your rearview mirror and then go
Methanol
Yeah I got about another lap I'm gonna get him
He's leanin' over gonna hit the wall a-spinnin'
He's rollin' over into the corner I'm smellin' smoke
I think he's burnin' up his motor I pass him up