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butanol

butanol noun: butan-1-ol or n-butanol or butyl alcohol - CH₃(CH₂)₃-OH.

Noun

butanol (countable and uncountable, plural butanols)

  1. butan-1-ol or n-butanol or butyl alcohol - CH₃(CH₂)₃-OH
  2. butan-2-ol or sec-butanol - CH₃CH₂CH(CH₃)-OH
  3. 2-methyl-propan-1-ol or iso-butanol - (CH₃)₂CHCH₂-OH
  4. 1,1-dimethyl-ethanol or tert-butanol - (CH₃)₃C-OH

butanol meaning in Tamil

butanol in Tamil

பியூற்றனோல்

Forms of butanol

pluralbutanols

Origin of butanol

From butane + -ol.

Words formed from butanol

Questions about butanol

What does butanol mean?
Butanol means butan-1-ol or n-butanol or butyl alcohol - CH₃(CH₂)₃-OH.
What is butanol in Tamil?
Butanol in Tamil is பியூற்றனோல். See Butanol meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is butanol?
Butanol is a noun.
What is the plural of butanol?
The plural of butanol is butanols.

Words near butanol in the dictionary

  1. butanilicaine
  2. butanoate
  3. butanoates
  4. butanoic
  5. butanoic acid
  6. butanol
  7. butanolate
  8. butanolates
  9. butanolid
  10. butanolide
  11. butanolides

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Adapted from Wiktionary: butanol (page history and authors); butanol (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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