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Your cart is empty. Methanol is a type of alcohol made primarily from natural gas. Itās a base material in acetic acid and formaldehyde, and in recent years it is also increasingly been used in ethylene and propylene. Mixing methanol with substances like these enables it to be used as an intermediate material to make literally thousands of methanol and methanol derivative products used in practically every aspect of our lives.
In industrial settings, methanol is produced synthetically by a multi-step process involving natural gas and a process called āsteam reforming.ā In the past, methanol was once made by the distillation of wood, which is why it is also called wood alcohol. The distillation of wood is the process in which wood is heated to form charcoal and vapors. The vapors are condensed and collected to form a brownish liquid, creating methanol.
Methanol is available commercially in various purity grades. Commercial methanol is generally classified according to ASTM purity grades A and AA. Both grade A and grade AA purity are 99.85% methanol by weight. Grade "AA" methanol contains trace amounts of ethanol as well.
Methanolāwater mixtures have autoprotolysis constants between 14 (water) and 16.6 (methanol), so neutral in these mixtures ranges from pH 7 to pH 8.3.
Jeff h.
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2025
Great job just what I ordered
Eric H
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2025
4x quart bottles are annoying - probly required by regs.
Mobile Welding co.
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2024
Great price
robert stevenson
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2024
I use this for camp stove fuel... It's not particularly cheap, but I'm grateful it's available. Here in California, denatured alcohol is banned so this stuff works fine as a substitute.
Milton Torres
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2024
Excellent product for the price
J. Hall
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2024
Great solvent. Thank you
jon mcalear
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2023
Good stuff, what can you say about methanol?
Transcondutor
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2023
I havenāt tested for purity, so is it anhydrous? Ive no idea. However, I was able to perform both base and acid catalyzed transesterification reactions with s success (not bio fuel, just fixing school glue so its all Polyvinyl Alcohol) From factory, at least half is Polyvinyl Acetate which was the case with both Elmerās Clear and Amazon Basics clear. For some reason the amazon a glue seems like a cleaner product with less yellow/beige color. Iām using it as an ion exchange resin, where the acetate form is know to exhibit high impedance. I know, must be asking, why not order some pure PVA, right? I did and with a broken heating mantle, thereās absolutely no way to feasibility get pulverous PVA to a consistent viscosity, throughout a given solution without the consistent stirring during heating and I bought the school glue first, under the bad advice of a YouTuber who stated clear glues are PVA and white are PVAc. Oh yeah, weāll dehydrate some with H2SO4 and Acetic acid evolution begins once the un reacted alcohol vaporizes. I mean SMELLY STUFF!
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