On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 02:42:39 -0800, Leonard Blaisdell
> wrote:

> In article >,
> sf > wrote:
>
> > Please name a few.
>
> Well there's methyl, **ethyl**, propyl, pentyl, hexyl, septyl, octyl,
> nonyl and so forth. There are variations in between if the carbon chain
> branches. That's where you get your iso or n prefix. Drop the 'yl' and
> substitute 'anol" to make them one word. That's if I remember my organic
> chemistry correctly. But I'm pretty close. Name a grandkid Octyl and
> prove me wrong ;-)
>
<disappointed> I thought you were talking about "real" alcohol... the
kind you drink at a bar, not the stuff you put in gas tanks and I also
thought you were talking about the kind of alcohol poisoning that
would be accidental.


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