Give a chemical test to distinguish ethanol from etanoic acid?
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Acidity test:
- Add each unknown substance to sodium carbonate or bicarbonate
- if effervescence takes place and a gas evolves that turns clear lime water turbid ⇒ the substance is acetic acid.
- if no reaction ⇒ the substance is ethanol
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