How to remember Alcohols
Following on from the section on how to remember hydrocarbons you also need to know that the word methanol means
Meth = Me teeth eating a bun = Meth is 1 carbon
(which we already know)
But also that Anol means OH is attached.
So Methanol = CH3OH
Mammoth memory chemistry uses pictures to link
Anol to mean "An old" phara OH = OH
This would allow you to realise that Ethanol
Eth - Death - with red shoes = Eth is 2
and - "an old" - pharaoh = OH
is a hydrocarbon with 2 carbon atoms and an OH attachment as
Or it also allows you to realise that
means 4 carbon atoms and an OH attachment.
4 = Door = Beauty in doorway = But
OH = Pharaoh = An old = Anol
we are dealing with
Butanol
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