3-pentanol is a:

Primary alcohol

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Secondary alcohol

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Tertiary alcohol

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None of these

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Solution

The correct option is B Secondary alcohol
3-pentanol is a secondary alcohol as it is connected to secondary carbon (connected to two carbon atom or number of H atoms attached to $s p^{3} - C$ is 1.)
Hence option b is correct.

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