2007-02-06 04:08:49 · 3 answers · asked by aly 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
The only requirement for a substance to be an alcohol is to have an - OH group covalently bonded to an saturated carbon atom.
ALL Alcohols (including ethanol) are poisonous to living systems. (Drink enough alcohol , beer wine, gin and you will DIE).
Not all alcohols are soluble in polar solvents. It depends on the SIZE of the molecule that you are talking about. Dodecanol, C12-OH is insoluble in H2O for example.
2007-02-06 04:27:30 · answer #1 · answered by Dr Dave P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have multiples types of alcohol. Methanol for instance is poisonous and regulated by law in alcoholic beverages. Ethanol is common alcohol (4%-7% in beer, about 11% in wine, 40% in whiskey, 90% in the drugstore), but you have pentanol, and many other molecules that behave like an alcohol. In common they have an atom of oxygen and another of hydrogen, bound together, and then binding to the rest of the molecule. Their specific chemistry and what they dissolve depends on the fact that the bond O-H (oxygen, hydrogen) is slightly polar. Check up the Wikipedia, will you.
2007-02-06 12:21:47 · answer #2 · answered by Catch 22 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Alcohlol?-Methyl-Ethyl-Propyl etc?--What is "normally" known as Alcohol is Ethyl Alcohol--C2H5OH-second part of your question ,I do not understand.
2007-02-06 12:25:16 · answer #3 · answered by ssrvj 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋