Sugarcane juice is used to prepare molasses which on fermentation gives :

propanol

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ethanol

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ethenol

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methanol

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Solution

The correct option is C ethanol
Sugarcane juice is used to prepare molasses which on fermentation gives ethanol.

Sugarcane juice contains sucrose. After crystallisation of sucrose from concentrated sugar cane juice, it contains about $50 %$ uncrystallisable cane sugar, glucose and fructose.

Most of the ethanol is manufactured from molasses.

Option B is correct.

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