"ABV" meaning in English

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          "text": "At only 2% ABV, this brand of beer won't get you drunk cheaply.",
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          "text": "On a tour of the cavernous and gleaming BrewDog plant in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, Dickie happily batted around terminology – IBU, ABV, pH, haze, present gravity, headspace oxygen – with PhD-level microbiologists working in the lab.",
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          "text": "U.S. law considers alcohol proof to be twice the ABV percentage.",
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          "text": "If you’re choosing between two beers of the same size, for instance, and one is 4 percent A.B.V. and the other is 8 percent, the 4 percent beer will expose you to half as much ethanol.",
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