The organic compound which when mixed with ethyl alcohol, [ethanol], makes a spurious is:

methanol

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methanoic acid

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Solution

The correct option is B methanol
Alcohol is used in large qualities to produce alcoholic ilquiors or beverages throughout the world. Excessive drinking of it damages kidney and produces other vices. So, to refrain people from drinking it, government controls its production and supply . This is done by making it unfit for drinking by addituion of poisonous, substances like methanol, action, pyridine, $C u S O_{4} .$ It is called methylated spirit/denatured alcohol.

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