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Methanol and ethanol are two commercially important alcohols.
The boiling point of ethanol is higher than that of methoxy methane. Give reason.

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Ethanol molecules are associated by intermolecular hydrogen bonding. So the boiling point is high. There is no hydrogen bonding in methoxymethane (ether).
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