Properties and Uses of organic compounds

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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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