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In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (–OH) is bound to a saturated carbonatom.[2] The term alcohol originally referred to the primary alcohol ethanol (ethyl alcohol), which is used as a drug and is the main alcohol present in alcoholic beverages.
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Alcohol, according to IUPAC, refers to any carbon based molecule that contains a hydroxyl (-OH) group. But for the purposes of this article, when we're talking about Alcohol, we're talking about a specific member of this family of compounds: Ethanol (CH3-CH2-OH). Mainly because, of all the alcohols, only ethanol is really fit for human consumption and serves as a psychoactive drug e.g. methanol (CH3-OH) will give you the buzz of a glass of hard liquor, but it will also destroy your eyes and lungs and, most likely, kill you; Isopropyl (CH3-CHOH-CH3) and butyl (CH3-CH2-CH2-CH3) alcohols (fusel oils) are much less toxic than methanol and even more psychoactive than ethanol, but they taste and smell really nasty and still are somewhat toxic, etc.
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