Alcohols at Chemical Glossary

What is it? Alcohol in chemistry means any organic compound in which a hydroxyl group (OH) is bound to a carbon atom, further bound to other hydrogen and/or carbon atoms.

Chemistry Definition Added By: Sean

Send To Friends!

If you'd like to send the Alcohols definition to yourself or to your friends/colleagues, just enter the e-mail addresses in the boxes below -

We hope you now understand the meaning of Alcohols. If you need any more information on this term, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Other Similar Chemical Terms:

Chemistry Term Detergents is These are organic chemicals designed to clean surfaces or objects. They do this by reducing the surface tension and suspend dirt in suspension from the object to be cleaned. Early detergents were long chain alcohol derivatives of sodium sulphate salts, su

Chemistry Term manometer is an instrument for measuring pressure liquids and gasses. It usually consists of a U-shaped tube containing a liquid, the surface of which is in one end of the tube; moves proportionally with changes in pressure on the liquid in the other end. Also, a tube

Chemistry Term Mobile is refers to a continuous-monitoring instrument mounted on a vehicle such as, but not limited to, a mining machine or industrial truck.

Chemistry Term Phenotype is This is a term which is applied to the appearance or constitutional nature of an organism as contrasted with its genetic potential, the genotype. See genotype.

Chemistry Term Boltzmanns Constant is The gas constant per molecule: 1.381x10-23J/atom K; 1.381x10-16 erg/atom K; or 8.63x10-5 eV/atom K.