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n. (context organic chemistry English) Any organic compound having three or more hydroxyl functional groups; a polyhydric alcohol.
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Usage examples of "polyol".
They are constructed on huge, 30 feet in diameter, molds that are spun with carbon fibers, layered with polurethane foam, and sprayed with polyol resins to produce a strong, light-weight, structure of permanent durability.
In late 2001, more than thirty years after it crashed, 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.
The Snowgrazers have devised a microbial process for converting the snow to polyols, or organic plastics.
OTEC platforms for further processing into polyols or organic plastics.
The polyols are transported by ship to world-wide manufacturing sites that are providing more and more of the new construction materials of the planet.