Methyl Alcohol is industrially produced by hydrogenation of carbon monoxide.
Methanol is a colourless, toxic, volatile, flammable liquid with a distinctive odour similar to that of ethanol.
It is a polar liquid used as a precursor to other commodity chemicals, as well as a host of more specialized chemicals including formaldehyde, acetic acid, methyl tert-butyl ether.
It is one of the world’s most widely used industrial chemical since the industrial revolution