Alcohol vs. Hydrocarbon — What's the Difference?

In chemistry, alcohol is an organic compound that carries at least one hydroxyl functional group (−OH) bound to a saturated carbon atom. The term alcohol originally referred to the primary alcohol ethanol (ethyl alcohol), which is used as a drug and is the main alcohol present in alcoholic drinks.

In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon. Hydrocarbons are examples of group 14 hydrides.

A colourless volatile flammable liquid which is produced by the natural fermentation of sugars and is the intoxicating constituent of wine, beer, spirits, and other drinks, and is also used as an industrial solvent and as fuel

Any of numerous organic compounds, such as benzene and methane, that contain only carbon and hydrogen.

Any of a series of hydroxyl compounds, the simplest of which are derived from saturated hydrocarbons, have the general formula CnH2n+1OH, and include ethanol and methanol.

(organic compound) A compound consisting only of carbon and hydrogen atoms. Category:en:Carbon

A colorless volatile flammable liquid, C2H5OH, synthesized or obtained by fermentation of sugars and starches and widely used, either pure or denatured, as a solvent and in drugs, cleaning solutions, explosives, and intoxicating beverages. Also called ethanol, ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol.

A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.

Intoxicating beverages containing ethanol considered as a group

An organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen

Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH).

(colloquial) Ethanol.

(uncountable) Beverages containing ethanol, collectively.

(obsolete) Any very fine powder.

An impalpable powder.

The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.

Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol or ethanol, CH3.CH2.OH); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5.OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.

A liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent;

Any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation