explain how will your differentiate (a) ethanol and ethanoic acid (b) cooking oil and butter
Answers
A. i.Ethenol belongs to alcohol group whereas ethenoic acid belongs to carboxylic acid group .
ii. Ethenol is used in making alcohol and ethenoic acid is used in making ester which is further used in making perfumes and flavouring agents and ester is also used to make soap when it reacts in the presence of an acid or a base.
B. Cooking oils contain unsaturated fatty acid whereas butter is saturated animal fat which is harmful for health as saturated fatty acid does not breaks
physically differentiation between ethanol and ethanoic acid
ethanol ethanoic acid
1 it has pleasant smell 1 it has pungent smell
2 its melting point is 156 k 2 the melting point of ethanoic acid
is 290 k
3 the boiling point of ethanol is 3 its boiling point is quite low.
391 k .
chemical differentiation between ethanol and ethanoic acid
ethanol ehanoic acid
1 it reacts with sodium to form sodium 1 it reacts with metals to form
ethoxide and hydrogen metal ethanoates and hydrogen
2 it does not give brisk effervescence 2 it give brisk effervescence with
with sodium hydrogen carbonate sodium hydrogen carbonate
3 it is pure neutral and do not furnish 3 it show acidic behaviour although
hydrogen ions it is weak acid
differentiation between cooking oil and butter
1 cooking oil is liquid in state 1 butter is solid in state
2 it is unsaturated compound 2 it is saturated compound
(alkene) (alkane)