Suggest a chemical test to distinguish between ethanol and ethanoic acid and explain the procedure.
Answers
Answer:the litmus paper test
Explanation:
Ethanoic acid is is being an acid tends to turn blue Litmus Paper into red while the the ethanol can't do so and do nothing with the Litmus Paper.
Answer:
We can distinguish between ethanoic acid and ethanol by reacting each of them with sodium hydrogen carbonate.
Explanation:
Sodium hydrogen carbonate test is used to distinguish between any carboxylic acid and alcohol.
Procedure:
In this test, we need to add small amount of sodium hydrogen carbonate or sodium bicarbonate to ethanol and ethanoic acid in separate test tubes.
Observation:
Ethanol will not react with sodium bicarbonate because it cannot dissociate hydrogen ion while ethanoic acid will react with sodium bicarbonate to form sodium ethanoate, carbon dioxide and water.