Polyol

//ˈpɒlɪɒl// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any organic compound having multiple hydroxyl functional groups, such as polyhydric alcohols.

    "a team at the Ames Research Center in California announced that the Murchison rock also contained complex strings of sugars called polyols, which had not been found off the Earth before."

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polyalcoholsugar alcohol

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"a team at the Ames Research Center in California announced that the Murchison rock also contained complex strings of sugars called polyols, which had not been found off the Earth before."

Etymology

From poly- + -ol.

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functional group

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