Meanings
nounpolyol (plural polyols)
plural polyols
- chemistryAny organic compound having multiple hydroxyl functional groups, such as polyhydric alcohols.
a team at the Ames Research Center in California announced that the Murchison rock also contained complex strings of sugars called polyols, which had not been found off the Earth before.
2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 258
Origin
Translations
Finnish polyoli
- polyolipolyhydric alcohol
Hungarian többértékű alkohol
- többértékű alkoholpolyhydric alcohol
Polish poliol, alkohol wielowodorotlenowy
- poliolpolyhydric alcohol
- alkohol wielowodorotlenowypolyhydric alcohol
- alkohol polihydroksylowypolyhydric alcohol
Welsh polyol
- polyolpolyhydric alcohol
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