alt Hacker News"Often still known by its archaic name Benzol"
In German, that's the regular name, haha.
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chasil • 06/16/2025
That would actually imply that an OH group replaced one of the hydrogens, forming an alcohol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_(chemistry)
So Benzol is not benzyl alcohol.
Edit: this is not what I was expecting.
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/benzin has also become the word for gasoline in many languages.