Chemistry A-Level
Relationship between aliphatic and alicyclic
What Relationship between aliphatic and alicyclic means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Alicyclic sits inside aliphatic, so every alicyclic compound is also aliphatic, but not every aliphatic compound is alicyclic.
Topics that use Relationship between aliphatic and alicyclic
- Basic concepts of organic chemistry (OCR A-Level)
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