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Ethanol, an organic compound, has the following structural formula.

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What is the chemical formula for ethanol?
CH6O
C2H5O
C2H5O2
C2H6O

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The answer to your question - what is the chemical formula for ethanol? is C2H60. :) hope this answer helps
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Ethanol, an organic compound is ethyl alcohol, in which the two carbon parent chain ethane has an alcohol substituent (-OH).

In ethanol the parent carbon compound is ethane and one of the hydrogens on ethane is replaced by an alcohol -OH group.

The chemical formula will be
CH_(3)CH_(2)OH which can be written as
C_(2)H_(6)O

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