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There are alcohol and ether groups. The structure is repeat units, where "n" is a large number: HO-(CH2-CH2-O)n-H See the Web Links for more information.

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Polyethylene glycol does not contain any functional groups. It is a polymer made up of repeating ethylene glycol units linked together through ether linkages.

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It is a diol or double alcohol group. It has two functional -OH (alcohol) groups

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Hydroxyl Groups, -OH, are the only organic functional groups on a glycerol molecule.

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None. Pure polyethylene is just CH2 repeating

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Alcohol. It's also known as ethane 1,2 diol which by it's name indicated it has 2 functional -OH groups (alcohol).

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a chain of 3 carbons, with each having a hydroxyl group attached

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