Commonly used as a laboratory solvent and cleaning agent for glassware instruments and surfaces. It is also used in analytical and chemical laboratories for sample preparation and general laboratory procedures.

Primarily used to provide a high-purity alcohol medium for cleaning extraction dilution and other laboratory applications where denatured alcohol is suitable.

Reagent alcohol is ethanol that has been denatured with small amounts of other substances commonly methanol andor isopropanol to make it unsuitable for drinking. It is typically a clear colorless highly flammable liquid.