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-ol is the suffix used in IUPAC nomenclature to indicate an alcohol group, -OH. The systematic name for alcohols is alkanols. Examples are methanol, CH3OH, ethanol C2H5OH and phenol, C6H5OH. All the numbers should be subscripts.

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