How would you dinstinguish experimentally between an ethanol and an ethanoic acid
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Ethanol doesn't react with NaHCO3
Whereas erhanoic acid reacts with NaHCO3 to produce CO2.
You can test the presence of CO2 by passing the gas through limewater and it would tune me lky in nature.
This is way to distinguish erhanol from ethanoic acid experimentally.
Hope my answer helps you.
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