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Alcohol vs Polyol - What's the difference?

alcohol | polyol |

As nouns the difference between alcohol and polyol

is that alcohol is any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH) while polyol is any organic compound having three or more hydroxyl functional groups; a polyhydric alcohol.

alcohol

English

(wikipedia alcohol)

Noun

  • (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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.}}
  • (obsolete) Any very fine powder.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * -holic * -holism * -ol * alcohol abuse * alcoholic * alcoholism * low-alcohol * non-alcoholic * nonalcoholic

    References

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    polyol

    English

    (wikipedia polyol)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) Any organic compound having three or more hydroxyl functional groups; a polyhydric alcohol.
  • * 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA 2003, p. 258:
    • a team at the Ames Research Center in California announced that the Murchison rock also contained complex strings of sugars called polyols , which had not been found off the Earth before.