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| Frank <"frank to Badbob |
| Re: alcohol? |
| 15 Oct 18 20:02:54 |
From: "@frank.net On 10/15/2018 6:52 PM, Badbob wrote: > Sugar molecules have lots of C-O-H on them. Does that mean they are all > alcohols? Trying to brush up on organic chemistry. > > Bob Sure, anything with C-O-H is an alcohol but these are a special class also containing an aldehyde or ketone group and are all called carbohydrates. I worked once in a plant that hydrogenated sugars and then with all C-O-H groups the products were called polyols. --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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