noun. Any of various diols, usually containing vicinal hydroxyl groups.

noun. Ethylene glycol.

noun. The general name of a class of compounds intermediate in their properties and chemical relations between alcohol and glycerol, or the bodies of which these are the types.

noun. A thick, colorless liquid, C2H4(OH)2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds. It is a diacid alcohol, intermediate between ordinary ethyl alcohol and glycerin.

noun. Any one of the large class of diacid alcohols, of which glycol proper is the type.

noun. Any aliphatic diol.

noun. A thick, colourless liquid, C2H4(OH)2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds and used as an antifreeze; ethylene glycol.

noun. a sweet but poisonous syrupy liquid used as an antifreeze and solvent

noun. any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule

"Mike Brady, chief executive of the Los Angeles company, says they contain methylene glycol, which is formaldehyde that has reacted with water, not formaldehyde per se."

diethene glycol  

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