Properties and Uses of organic compounds
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- Created on: 09-05-14 17:44
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Alcohols - Properties and Uses
Uses Include:
- Alcoholic drinks - eg. beers, wine
- Solvents (that can dissolve chemicals) - useful for perumes/aftershaves + ink
- Fuels as they burn in air
- ethanol is used in biofuel
- used in fermentation
- ethene + steam
- When they burn completley they produce: ethanol + oxygen - CO2 + water
- Methanol, ethanol and propanol produce neutral solutions when mixed with water
Sodium reacts with alcohols to make hydrogen
When alcohols are oxidised by chemical oxidising agents they make carboxylic…
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