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BookmarkIn chemistry, alcohol is any organic compound in which a hydroxyl group (-OH) is bound to a carbon atom, which in turn is bound to other hydrogen and/or carbon atoms.
In general usage, alcohol refers almost always to ethanol..
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Common ethanol fuel mixtures — Ethanol (ethyl alcohol) and methanol (methyl alcohol) are two types of alcohol fuels. The use of pure alcohols in internal combustion engines is only ... > read moreNote: This page refers to an article that is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the article Alcohol at Wikipedia.org. See the Wikipedia copyright page for more details.
