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Alcohol (chemistry)
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In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (–OH) is bound to a carbon.
Quotes
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
See also
Alcoholic beverage
External links
Category:Organic compounds