Alcohol vs Ketone - What's the difference?
alcohol | ketone |
(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.
(organic chemistry) A homologous series of organic molecules whose functional group is an oxygen atom joined to a carbon atom—by a double bond—in a carbon-hydrogen based molecule.
* acetone R1 = R2 = CH3
* methyl ethyl ketone R1 = CH3, R2 = C2H5
* camphor C??H??O
As nouns the difference between alcohol and ketone
is that alcohol is any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH) while ketone is a homologous series of organic molecules whose functional group is an oxygen atom joined to a carbon atom—by a double bond—in a carbon-hydrogen based molecule.alcohol
English
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