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Heating different types of alcohols (fuels)
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Heating different types of alcohols (fuels) Introduction: Alcohol is one of the most useful chemicals known to man. It is a compound of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, which can be combined together in many different ways. There are many different kinds of alcohol, the commonest being called ethyl alcohol, "spirits of wine" or just "alcohol". This is the important ingredient in beer, cider, whisky, gin, rum, brandy and various wines. Ethyl alcohol is also known as ethanol. Other types of alcohol are used as fuel for stoves, as solvents in cleaning or in the production of medicines. Alcohols belong to the general family of compounds whose molecules are based on chains of carbon atoms. These substances differ from all other organic compounds in that their molecules contain at least one oxygen atom joined to a carbon atom solely by a single bond. In alcohols this oxygen is part of a hydroxyl group,...
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