Question

How will you distinguish chloroethane and bromoethane

Answer 1

chloroethane has chlorine as halogen and bromoethane has bromine has halogen

Answer 2

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Add small amount of KOH and acidify with dil. Nitric acid and then few drops of silver nitrate solution.

A white ppt. Soluble in NH4OH indicates chloroethane while a light yellow ppt. partially soluble in NH4OH indicates bromoethane.

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