Explain, Phenol is more acidic than ethanol.
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Phenol is more acidic than ethanol because the pi electrons present inside it go for the resonance with the benzene ring.
Due to this, acidic nature of the phenol increases much higher compared to the ethanol.
Also, ethanol doesn't have any structure so it will not lose its proton as the phenol does.
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The acidic substance has the tendency to produce H+ ion when dissolved in water. Both phenol and ethanol weak acid. However, the acidity of phenol is more than that of ethanol. This is because after losing a proton, the phenoxide ion undergoes resonance & gets stabilized whereas ethoxide ion does not.
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