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No, it is NOT either both. Besides 'benzenepropanol' is not an official name.

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Benzenepropanol is an optical isomer. Optical isomers have non-superimposable mirror images due to asymmetry around at least one chiral center. Geometrical isomers, on the other hand, result from different spatial arrangements around a double bond.

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