Alcohol (chemistry)

any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (–OH) is bound to a saturated carbon atom

In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (–OH) is bound to a carbon.

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  • There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for one hundred years.
    • Henry Ford, as quoted in Stephen R. Fahnestock; Alexander Steinbüchel, Biopolymers, Polyamides and Complex Proteinaceous Materials, Vol. 1 (2003), p. 395

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