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"Radium" > wrote in message
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> Madalch wrote:
>> > FYI, more than just water remains. Grapes contain other organic
>> > compounds such as phenols.

>>
>> For your information, phenols are fairly acidic, and you insisted on
>> stripping out all the acids.

>
> Phenols are not acids. They end in -ol so they are alcohols. Ethan-ol
> and methan-ol and most any substance ending in -ol is an alcohol.
>

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Like salbutamol and propanolol, for example...

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