Where does “n-propanol” come from?

n-propanol (English) comes from English propanol — Either of two isomeric aliphatic alcohols, CH-OH.

Ancestry of “n-propanol”, step by step

n-propanol traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English propanol

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpropanolEither of two isomeric aliphatic alcohols, CH-OH

via English N

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishNThe ordinal number fourteenth, derived from this...
Every word from English propanol