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What is the adjective for hydroxyls?

What's the adjective for hydroxyls? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb hydroxylate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

hydroxylian
  1. (mineralogy) Describing any mineral that whose components have free hydroxyl groups
hydroxylated
  1. (organic chemistry) That has been modified by hydroxylation
hydroxylic
  1. (chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or containing hydroxyl groups
  2. Examples:
    1. “The components have high absorption characteristics resulting from the presence of carboxylic, hydroxylic, and aldehydic functional groups.”
hydroxylating
  1. present participle of hydroxylate
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