Polyol - What does it mean?
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(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:
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English
(wikipedia polyol)Noun
(en noun)- 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.