Which is more acidic-- phenol or ethanol.explain?
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Phenol is more acidic because when it loses one H+ ion it form phenoxide ion which is stable(resonance stabalised).
But alcohols does not give H+ ions easily to form alkoxide ion which is not stable and readily take the H+ ion and form alcohol again.
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