EthanolEthanol (also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, drinking alcohol, or simply alcohol) is an organic compound with the chemical formula CH3CH2OH. It is an alcohol, with its formula also written as C2H5OH, C2H6O, or EtOH, where Et is the pseudoelement symbol for ethyl. Read from the Chembox of the Wikipedia article Ethanol, revision 1379999222.

Property

Value

Formula

C2H6O, 46.07 g/mol

Melting point

-114.14 °C

Boiling point

78.23 °C

Density

0.78945 g/cm³

Flash point

14 °C

log P, measured

-0.31

pKa

15.9

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