“…Determination of ethanol is important in food technology, fermentation and wine industries, as well as in clinical chemistry (Alexander et al, 1998;Esti et al, 2003;Watson et al, 1998). Classical methods such as refractometry (Pen'kovskii et al, 2004) or densitometry (Bavcar & Kosmerl, 2003) of the distilled samples, as well as gas chromatography (Schmitt & Aderjan, 2004) which are routinely used in in clinics and industry are time-and labour-consuming procedures.…”