1B The Alcohols
Ethanol is the best-known member of the series of Alcohol, it is mainly found in Beers, wine and Spirit. It is also used in perfumes because the liquid evaporates quickly, however ethanol catches fire easily (flammable)
Methanol another alcahol can be made in two steps from methane and steam. it is used as adhensive, foams and windscreen washer fluids.
The alcohol can be seen as a Alkane however the Hydrogen is replaced by an OH, this is the functional groups for Alcohol.
Alcahols are liquid at room temerature, whereas the alkanes was gases at room temperature, (look at methane and methanol) the presence of the OH gives the molecules the greater tendency to cling together like water.
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