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polyol

/ˈpɒlɪɒl/ UK

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From poly- + -ol.

noun polyols

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.

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@misc{polyol_2026,
  title = {polyol},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/polyol},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}