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*in ‘chemistry’, an alcohol is any ‘organic compound’ in which the ‘hydroxyl functional group’ (–OH) is bound to a ‘saturated carbon atom’–
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(the term ‘alcohol’ originally referred to the primary alcohol ‘ethanol’ (or ‘ethyl alcohol’), the pre-dominant alcohol in ‘alcoholic beverages’)
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*the suffix -ol appears in the ‘IUPAC chemical name’ of all substances where the ‘hydroxyl group’ is the functional group with the highest priority*
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*in substances where a higher priority group is present the prefix hydroxy- will appear in the ‘International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry’ (IUPAC) name*
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(the suffix -ol in non-systematic names (such as ‘paracetamol’ / ‘cholesterol’) also typically indicates that the substance includes a ‘hydroxyl functional group’ and, so, can be termed an ‘alcohol’)
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(but many substances, particularly ‘sugars (such as ‘glucose’ + ‘sucrose’) contain ‘hydroxyl functional groups’ without using the ‘suffix’)
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