alcohol
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Gen. Benjamin Watson ordered a nighttime curfew, a two-day halt of military activity for training, and a temporary ban on alcohol consumption.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The Champagne region fared less well as growers had to harvest exceptionally early after the extreme heat sped sugar buildup -- and hence natural alcohol production.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Why do we swab the arm with alcohol before injecting the drugs to kill them?
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
Behind the bar, yeast busily converted sugars into alcohol inside giant stainless steel fermentation tanks.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
“Well, I better go see how much rubbing alcohol the apothecary can spare.”
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Hydrocarbons and chemical compounds like industrial alcohols and plastics accounted for the bulk of Tehran's exports to Beijing.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
The addition of alkynyls to carbonyl compounds, such as ketones, is a valuable synthetic method for the preparation of versatile chiral alcohols that are widely found in pharmaceuticals and natural products.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 12, 2024
There are also polyols or sugar alcohols - erythritol particularly has gained traction in recent years.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023
Fermenting encompasses a range of processes through which microorganisms — yeasts, molds, bacteria — break down compounds in food to create alcohols, acids or alkalis, which in turn prevent the growth of harmful pathogens.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023
The expertise at distillation that medieval Islamic alchemists developed to produce alcohols and perfumes also let them distill petroleum into fractions, some of which proved to be even more powerful incendiaries.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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