Alcohol (chemistry)

In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (–OH) is bound to a carbon.

Quotes

• There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for one hundred years.
  • Henry Ford, as quoted in Stephen R. Fahnestock; Alexander Steinbüchel, Biopolymers, Polyamides and Complex Proteinaceous Materials, Vol. 1 (2003), p. 395

See also

• Alcoholic beverage