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==Applications== [[File:Alcohol by Country.png|thumb|upright=0.9|Total recorded [[alcohol consumption by country|alcohol per capita consumption]] (15+) per year, in litres of pure ethanol<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.who.int/entity/substance_abuse/publications/global_status_report_2004_overview.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.who.int/entity/substance_abuse/publications/global_status_report_2004_overview.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live |title=Global Status Report on Alcohol 2004 |access-date=28 November 2010}}</ref>]] Alcohols have a long history of myriad uses. For simple mono-alcohols, which is the focus on this article, the following are most important industrial alcohols:<ref name="Falbe">{{Ullmann | first1 = Jürgen | last1 = Falbe | first2 = Helmut | last2 = Bahrmann | first3 = Wolfgang | last3 = Lipps | first4 = Dieter | last4 = Mayer | title = Alcohols, Aliphatic | doi = 10.1002/14356007.a01_279}}.</ref> * methanol, mainly for the production of [[formaldehyde]] and as a [[fuel additive]] * ethanol, mainly for alcoholic beverages, fuel additive, solvent, and to sterilize hospital instruments.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alcohol {{!}} Definition, Formula, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/alcohol |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> * 1-propanol, 1-butanol, and isobutyl alcohol for use as a solvent and precursor to solvents * C6–C11 alcohols used for [[plasticizer]]s, e.g. in [[polyvinylchloride]] * fatty alcohol (C12–C18), precursors to [[detergent]]s Methanol is the most common industrial alcohol, with about 12 million tons/y produced in 1980. The combined capacity of the other alcohols is about the same, distributed roughly equally.<ref name="Falbe"/>
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