Organic compounds {alcohol, chemical}| can have carbon atom single-bonded to hydroxyl group: -C-O-H. Alcohols are colorless, have pungent and sweet odor, are reactive, are polar, are basic or acidic, and are oxidizable and reducible. Alcohols with less than twenty carbons are liquids. Alcohols dissolve in water if they have less than six carbons. Carbon atom with two hydroxyl side chains is unstable and reverts to aldehyde or ketone.
Organic compounds can have carbon atom single-bonded to oxygen atom single-bonded to hydrogen atom {hydroxyl group}: -O-H.
Sodium or magnesium metal can remove hydrogen atom from alcohol oxygen atom to make hydrogen gas and ion {alkoxide ion} with charge -1: -C-O- [last - is superscript].
Sulfuric or hydrobromic acid can add hydrogen atom to alcohol oxygen atom to make unstable ion {alkyloxonium ion} {oxonium ion} with charge +1: -C-O+H2 [+ is superscript, and 2 is subscript].
Alcohols {ethylene glycol} can have two carbons, each with one hydroxyl group.
Alcohols {glycerol, alcohol} can have three carbons, each with one hydroxyl group.
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