What are Alcohols?

What are Alcohols?

Alcohols:

If you replace a hydrogen atom in an alkane by an -OH group, you get an alcohol.

An alcohol is an organic compound with a hydroxyl (OH) functional group on an aliphatic carbon atom.

 

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