meaning of glycol
1. A thick, colorless liquid, C2H4(OH)2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds. It is a diacid alcohol, intermediate between ordinary ethyl alcohol and glycerin.
2. Any one of the large class of diacid alcohols, of which glycol proper is the type.
3. any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule
Related Words
glycol | glycolic | glycolic acid | glycolide | glycollic acid | glycoluric | glycoluril | glycolyl | glycolysis |
