• British Pharmacopoeia Volume V
  • Appendices
  • Appendix I A. General Reagents

Methanol
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Methanol Methyl alcohol; CH4O = 32.04 (67-56-1)

Clear, colourless, flammable liquid, miscible with water and with ethanol (96%).

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When 'methanol' is followed by a percentage figure, an instruction to use methanol diluted with water to produce the specified percentage v/v of methanol is implied.