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In Chemistry , 'Alcohol' is a chemical functional group, giving for many different alcohols.

However, if you are referring to the 'alcohol' , that is in beers, wines and spirits that humans drink, then its name is 'ethanol' ( archaically ; ethyl alcohol),

Its chemcial formula is

CH3-CH2OH

Some of the other chermical alcohols are

methanol (methyl alcohol ) H-CH2OH

propanol (propyl alcohol) CH3-CH2-CH2OH

butanol ( butyl alcohol ) CH3CH2CH2CH2OH

There are many more chemical 'alcohols' , but they all have the same functional group, which is R -CH2OH'. 'R' being the rest of the molecule.

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lenpollock

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