Alcohol is any organic compound in which a hydroxyl functional group (-OH) is bound to a carbon atom, usually connected to other carbon or hydrogen atoms. An important class are the simple acyclic alcohols, the general formula for which is CnH2n+1OH. Of those, ethanol (C2H5OH) is the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, and in common speech the word alcohol refers specifically to ethanol. Articles related to alcohol include:
- Alcoholic beverage
- List of countries by alcohol consumption
- Alcohol abuse
- Alcohol advertising
- Impact of alcohol on aging
- Alcoholism
- Alcohol and breast cancer
- Alcohol and cancer
- Alcohol powder
- Alcohol and sex
- Alcohol dementia
- Alcohol use and sleep
- Alcoholic spirits measures
- Anstie's limit
- Antipokhmelin
- Beer
- Beer snake
- Blackout (alcohol-related amnesia)
- Blood alcohol content
- Christianity and alcohol
- List of cocktails
- Alcohol consumption and health
- Corporification
- Dipsomania
- Distilled beverage
- Drinking culture
- Drinking game
- Driving under the influence
- Drunkenness
- Alcohol education
- Alcohol equivalence
- Ethanol
- Ethyl glucuronide
- Ethylphenidate
- Alcohol flush reaction
- Get Your Sexy Back, moderate drinking campaign, Singapore
- Hangover
- Islam and alcohol
- Legal drinking age
- Liquor
- Long-term effects of alcohol
- Patent medicine
- Positional alcohol nystagmus
- Potomania
- Recommended maximum intake of alcoholic beverages
- Roman eating and drinking
- Alcohol septal ablation
- Spins
- Alcohol tolerance
- Underage drinking in America
- Under the Volcano
- Violence in bars and pubs
- Alcohol and weight
- Wine
- Wine and health
- Alcohol without liquid
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