Alcohol vs Hemiacetal - What's the difference?
alcohol | hemiacetal |
(organic chemistry, countable) Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH).
(uncountable) An intoxicating beverage made by the fermentation of sugar or sugar-containing material.
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, title= (obsolete) Any very fine powder.
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(chemistry) Any of a class of compounds of general formula R2C(OH)OR' (where R' is not H).
As nouns the difference between alcohol and hemiacetal
is that alcohol is while hemiacetal is hemiacetal.alcohol
English
(wikipedia alcohol)Noun
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.}}