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Colorless liquid with a wine-like odor. Its solubility in water at 20°C is 7.7% by weight, and its solubility in n-butanol is 20.1% by weight. It is miscible with ethanol, ether, and many other organic solvents.

Butanol is used as a reagent for chromatographic analysis, as well as in organic synthesis. It can be used to produce butyl acetate, dibutyl phthalate, and phosphoric acid plasticizers, and also in the production of melamine resin, acrylic acid, epoxy varnish, etc.

ChEBI: Butan-1-ol is a primary alcohol that is butane in which a hydrogen of one of the methyl groups is substituted by a hydroxy group. It it produced in small amounts in humans by the gut microbes. It has a role as a protic solvent, a human metabolite and a mouse metabolite. It is a primary alcohol, a short-chain primary fatty alcohol and an alkyl alcohol.