More technically, alcohol is a solvent…
It’s both, you’re mixing different phylogenies. Any alcohol prepared for consumption is a solution of water, ethanol, and various other substances (almost all water or alcohol soluble). Ethanol in aqueous solution is also a strong solvent (pure ethanol is a less effective solvent, but a solvent nonetheless).
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Alcohol is a solution if you dilute it a little.
To quote a great man by the name of Schotty: “Alkohol ist keine Lösung! Alkohol ist eine Löse – das ist ein Riesen-Unterschied!”
There’s the joke in Swedish about alcohol being a lösningsmedel (solvent, but also something that solves problems). Won’t that also work in German but with Lösungsmittel?
Solvent or solute depending on concentration. The drink however is a solution.
I don’t have a drinking problem; I have a drinking solution!
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Anhydrous ethanol gang begs to differ
How dark it is before the Dawn!
