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Out of 2-chloroethanol and ethanol which is more acidic and why ?

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Ethanol is very wekaly acidic in nature . The presence of CI atom with -I effect increases its acidic strength.
`underset("Ethanol")(CH_(3))-CH_(2)-O-H " " ClarrCH_(2)underset(2-"Chloroethanol")(CH_(2)larrCH_(2))larrPlarrH`
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