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polyols

polyols is the plural of polyol.

Meaning of polyol

Noun

polyol (plural polyols)

  1. Any 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

Questions about polyols

What is polyols the plural of?
Polyols is the plural of polyol.

Words near polyols in the dictionary

  1. polyol
  2. polyolefin
  3. polyolefine
  4. polyolefines
  5. polyolefins
  6. polyols
  7. polyoma
  8. polyomas
  9. polyomaviral
  10. polyomaviruria
  11. polyomavirus

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