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Asked by Atith Adhikari · 2 years ago

Glycerol is called a trihydric alcohol. Why?

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Arpit Sundas Arpit Sundas · 1 year ago
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The alcohol having three hydroxyl groups(-OH) in one compound is called trihydric alcohol.

Hence, Glycerol [C3H5(OH)3] is called a trihydric alcohol because it has three hydroxyl group(-OH) after the removal of 3 hydrogen atoms from propane. It is the simplest trihydric alcohol.

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