polyol
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polyol (plural polyols)
- (organic chemistry) Any organic compound having three or more hydroxyl functional groups; a polyhydric alcohol.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA 2003, p. 258:
- 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 2003, p. 258:
