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Predict the stronger acid from the following pairs :
(a) Phenol and o-cresol
(b) p-Nitrophenol and m-Nitrophenol
(c) Phenol and cyclohexanol.

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(a) Phenol (b) p-Nitrophenol (c) Phenol
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